Thomas Scott Williams

Thomas Scott Williams (born June 26, 1777 in Wethersfield , Connecticut , †  December 15, 1861 in Hartford , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After a good elementary school education Thomas Williams attended Yale College until 1794 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1799, he began to work in Mansfield in his new profession. In 1803 he moved to Hartford. Politically, he became a member of the Federalist Party . Williams served in the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1813, 1815, and 1816 . In the state-wide held congressional elections of 1816 he was elected for the seventh mandate from Connecticut to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Lyman Law on March 4, 1817 . Until March 3, 1819, however, he only served one legislative period in Congress .

In the years 1819, 1825 and from 1827 to 1829 Williams was again a member of the House of Representatives of his state. In 1829 he was appointed associate judge on the Supreme Court of Errors . Williams was also Mayor of Hartford between 1831 and 1835. From May 1834 he was Chief Justice presiding judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court . He held this office until his resignation in 1847. From 1848 until his death in December 1861 he was President of the American Tract Society of New York .

Web links

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

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