John Williams (Salem, New York)

John Williams ( * September 1752 in Barnstaple, England; † July 22, 1806 in Salem, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1795 and 1799 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Williams grew up in England, where in London he studied medicine at St. Thomas Hospital. In 1773 he emigrated to the then British colonies in North America and settled in New Perth, later Salem, in Washington County down. In his new home, he practiced as a doctor. He joined the American Revolution and was a member of the 1775-1777 State Provincial Congress. Since 1775 he worked as a physician at the troops from New York. By the end of the Revolutionary War he served as a colonel in the State troops. After that, he was a member of the state militia of New York, where he was promoted to brigadier general in 1786. From 1777 to 1778, and again between 1782 to 1785 he sat in the Senate from New York, from 1781 to 1782 in the State Assembly. In 1784 he was appointed to the board of the New York University. He was also a delegate to the meeting, which was ratified in 1788 the Constitution of the United States for the state of New York.

Politically, Williams joined in the 1790s, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party. In the congressional elections of 1794 he was elected the ninth electoral district of New York at the time which meets even in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of James Gordon on March 4, 1795. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1799 two legislative sessions.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Williams was a landowner and a director of a company that was to build the Erie Canal. This could not complete the project later. The canal was finally completed by the state. Williams officiated in his home as a District Judge. He died on July 22, 1806 in Salem, where he was also buried.