John Stuart Williams

John Stuart Williams (born July 10, 1818 in Mount Sterling , Montgomery County , Kentucky , † July 17, 1898 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1885 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US Senate .

Career

John Williams attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1839 at Miami University in Oxford in Ohio . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1840, he began working in his new profession in Paris , Kentucky. He took part in the Mexican-American War first as a captain and then as a colonel . He was first in an independent company and then with the volunteers from Kentucky. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party . He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1851 and 1853 . Before the American Civil War , he was a strong advocate for state rights. Originally he was against the secession of the southern states. Annoyed by President Abraham Lincoln's policies , he eventually joined the Confederate States in 1861 . He joined their army as a colonel and rose to brigadier general in the course of the war. He took part in several battles.

After the war he lost, he worked in agriculture in Winchester , Kentucky. At the same time he continued his political career. In 1873 and 1875 he was again a member of the State House of Representatives. In 1875 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of his state. A year later he was a democratic elector at the Electoral College that officially elects the president. He voted for the defeated candidate Samuel J. Tilden . In the elections of 1878 he was elected as his party's candidate to the US Senate, where he succeeded Thomas C. McCreery on March 3, 1879 as a Class 3 category Senator . Since he was not re-elected in 1884, he left Congress on March 3, 1885. After that he worked in agriculture again. In the late 1880s, Williams also got into land development in some parts of Florida . Together with Walter Haldeman, he is one of the founders of the local city of Naples . John Williams died on July 17, 1898 in his hometown of Mount Sterling.

Web links

• John Stuart Williams in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)