William B. Williams

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William B. Williams

William Brewster Williams (born July 28, 1826 in Pittsford , New York , †  March 4, 1905 in Allegan , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1877 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Williams attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1851, he began to work in Rochester in his new profession. In 1855 he moved to Allegan, Michigan, where he worked as a probate judge between 1857 and 1865. At the same time, Williams embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . From 1866 to 1870 he was a member of the Michigan Senate , of which he was President in 1869. In 1867 he was a member of an assembly to revise the state constitution. In 1871 he became a member of a control commission of his state, which examined, among other things, charities and criminal institutions.

After the death of Congressman Wilder D. Foster , Williams was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the by-election due for the fifth seat of Michigan , where he took up his new mandate on December 1, 1873. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1877 . In 1876, Williams declined to run again. Between 1877 and 1883 he was railroad commissioner for the Michigan state government. Then he worked again as a lawyer. He died on March 4, 1905 in Allegan, where he was also buried.

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