Thomas Hill Williams

Thomas Hill Williams

Thomas Hill Williams (* 1780 in North Carolina , †  1840 in Robertson County , Tennessee ) was an American politician ( Democratic Republican Party ) and one of the first two US senators for the state of Mississippi .

Thomas Williams graduated from high school in North Carolina, then studied law , was inducted into the bar, and began practicing law. From 1805 he worked as a registration officer for the Land Office in the Mississippi Territory ; in the same year he became its executive officer as Secretary of the Territory . In this function he held the post of territorial governor for a short time in 1806 . After his reappointment as Territorial Secretary in 1807, this task fell to him a second time in 1809. After working as a customs collector in New Orleans in 1810 , he returned to Mississippi and took part there as a delegate to the constitutional convention of the future state.

After Mississippi joined the Union, Walter Leake and Thomas Williams were sent to Washington, DC as the new state's first two Senators . Williams took up his mandate from December 10, 1817 and also decided to be re-elected in 1823, so that he remained in Congress until March 3, 1829 . Among other things, he was chairman of the Committee on Public Lands during this time . During his second term in office, the Democratic Republican Party had split up; Williams belonged to Andrew Jackson's faction , the Jacksonians , who later became the Democratic Party . After the end of his political career, he moved to Tennessee, where he died in 1840.

Web links

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