Thomas Hill Williams

Thomas Hill Williams ( * 1780 in North Carolina, † 1840 in Robertson County, Tennessee ) was an American politician ( Democratic- Republican) and one of the first two U.S. senators for the state of Mississippi.

Thomas Williams concluded in his schooling from North Carolina, studied law afterwards, was admitted to the bar and began to practice as a lawyer. From 1805 he worked as a registration officer for the Country Office in the Mississippi Territory; In the same year he was appointed as Secretary of the Territory whose executive officer. In this function he exercised in 1806 for a short time as acting the office of territorial governor from. After his re- appointment as territorial secretary in 1807 he realized this task in 1809 for a second time. After working as a tax collector in 1810 in New Orleans, he returned to Mississippi and took part there as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the future state.

After recording the Mississippi into the Union Walter Leake and Thomas Williams were than the first two senators from the new state to Washington DC posted. Williams took his mandate from the December 10, 1817 true and decided the re-election in 1823 for himself, so he remained until March 3, 1829 in Congress. Among other things, he was Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands during this time. During his second term, the Democratic- Republican Party had split; Williams was a member of the faction of Andrew Jackson, the Jacksonians, which later became the Democratic Party was formed. After the end of his political career, he moved to Tennessee, where he died in 1840.