William B. Williams (politician)

William Brewster Williams ( born July 28, 1826 in Pittsford, New York, † March 4, 1905 in Allegan, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1877 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Williams attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1851 admitted to the bar he started in Rochester to work in his new profession. In 1855 he moved to Allegan in Michigan, where he worked as an estate judge 1857-1865. At the same time struck Williams as a member of the Republican Party a political career one. Between 1866 and 1870 he was a member of the Senate of Michigan, which he was president in 1869. In 1867 he was a member of a meeting to revise the State Constitution. In 1871 he was a member of a Control Commission of the State of which checked charities and penal institutions among others.

After the death of Congressman Wilder D. Foster Williams was at the due election for the fifth seat of Michigan as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 1 December 1873. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1877 Congress. In 1876, Williams gave up another candidacy. Between 1877 and 1883 he was a railroad commissioner of the state government of Michigan. He then worked again as a lawyer. He died on March 4, 1905 in Allegan, where he was also buried.

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