William Simpson Oldham, Sr.

Williamson Simpson Oldham ( born July 19, 1813 Franklin County, Tennessee; † May 8, 1868 in Houston, Texas) was an American lawyer and politician. He was also a member of the Episcopal Church and Freemasons.

Oldham was in 1838 a member of the Arkansas General Assembly. In 1842 he was elected judge of the Arkansas Supreme Court in the next few years, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in first 1846 U.S. House of Representatives and in 1848 for a seat in the U.S. Senate, both times for the U.S. state of Arkansas. Then he moved to Texas, where he first ran in 1853 unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Representatives in 1859, again for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1861 he represented Texas at the Secession Convention and then in the Provisional Konföderiertenkongress. Subsequently, he was elected Senator of the Confederate States (1st and 2nd Konföderiertenkongress ).

Williamson Simpson Oldham died in 1868 in Houston with typhus and was subsequently buried there on the Episcopal Cemetery. One has then reburied him in 1938 on the Brookside Memorial Park in Houston. The Oldham County, Texas was named after him.

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