Nathan Williams (politician)

Nathan Williams (born December 19, 1773 in Williamstown , Province of Massachusetts Bay , † September 25, 1835 in Geneva , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1805 and 1807 he represented the state of New York in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Nathan Williams was born in Williamstown about two years before the outbreak of the War of Independence . He attended community schools in Bennington ( Vermont ). The family moved to Troy in 1786 . He studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1795 and then began practicing in Utica . He helped found the Utica Public Library , where he served as a librarian for many years. Then he was President of the Village and President of the Manhattan Bank . In 1801 he became a district attorney - a position he held until 1813.

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . In the congressional elections of 1804 for the 9th Congress he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 15th constituency of New York , where he succeeded Gaylord Griswold on March 4, 1805 . He retired from the after March 3, 1807 Congress of.

Williams served during the British-American War . He was a member of the New York State Assembly between 1816 and 1818 and in 1819 . On January 28, 1817, he became regent at the University of the State of New York . He held the post until February 13, 1824. Between 1818 and 1821 he was a district attorney in Oneida County . In 1821 he took part as a delegate to the Constituent Assembly of New York. Between 1823 and 1833 he was a judge at the district court. In 1834 he was appointed clerk at the New York Supreme Court . He then moved to Geneva, where he died on September 25, 1835. His body was interred in the Utica cemetery, but his remains were reburied in Forest Hill Cemetery .

Web links

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

• Nathan Williams in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Remarks

1. ^ Member of the board of directors of a university