James Williams (Delaware representative)

James Williams ( * August 4, 1825 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † April 12, 1899 in Smyrna, Delaware ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the State of Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, James Williams moved to Kenton in Delaware, where he was engaged in farming among others. Originally he had made an apprenticeship as a carpenter and a career as an architect in the eye. But after his father, a timber merchant, had purchased a farm in Kenton, managed the young James this property. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1857 and 1858, 1863 and 1864 and again from 1883 to 1885 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Delaware. Between 1866 and 1871 he was a member of the State Senate; since 1869 he was its president. In 1872, Williams was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

1874 James Williams was against the Republican incumbent James R. Lofland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he was able to complete two terms in 1879 after a re-election in 1876 until March 3. In 1878, Williams opted not to run again. After the end of his time in Congress, he devoted himself again reinforced its agricultural interests, which he expanded beyond the borders of Delaware's out in the state of Maryland. By the end of his life Williams was connected to agriculture. From 1883 to 1885 he was again a deputy in the House of Representatives from Delaware, from 1891 to 1893 he was again the State Senate.

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