Thomas Sutler Williams

Thomas Sutler Williams ( born February 14, 1872 in Louisville, Illinois, † April 5, 1940 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1915 and 1929 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives; then he became a federal judge.

Career

Thomas Williams attended the public schools of his home, the Louisville High School and Austin College, Effingham. After a subsequent law degree in 1897 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Louisville to work in this profession. Between 1897 and 1899 he was also a legal representative of his hometown. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1899-1901 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Illinois. Between 1907 and 1909 he was mayor of Louisville. From 1908 to 1915 Williams served as a prosecutor in Clay County. In 1920 he became the owner and editor of the newspaper in Louisville Clay County Republican. Since 1926 he lived in Harrisburg.

In the congressional elections of 1914, Williams was elected in the 24th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the Democrats H. Robert Fowler on March 4, 1915. After seven elections he could remain until his resignation on 11 November 1929 at the Congress. From 1919 to 1921 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Department of Commerce. In his time as a congressman of the First World War fell. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

Thomas Williams resigned his seat on 11 November 1929 after he was appointed to a federal judgeship on the Court of Claims. He held this post until his death on 5 April 1940.