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| Affiliation | Whig |
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| Name | Lewis Williams |
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Surry County, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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February 01, 1782
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| Died | February 23, 1842
(60 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | WILLIAMS, Lewis, (brother of John Williams, of Tennessee, and Robert Williams and cousin of Marmaduke Williams), a Representative from North Carolina; born in Surry County, N.C., February 1, 1782
Graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1808; in his class were future Gov. John Owen [Link] and William B. Meares [Link] . [Raleigh Register 3/8/1842]
NC House of commons in 1813 and 1814
Candidate for U.S. House (DR-NC) 1813
U.S. Representative (DR, NR, W-NC) 1815-1842; chairman, Committee on Claims (Fifteenth through Twenty-first Congresses), Committee on Territories (Twenty-third Congress). Speaker Andrew Stevenson removed him from the Committee on Clains in 1828 for supporting the re-election of Pres. John Quincy Adams.
Williams supported William H. Crawford in the 1824 Presidential Election
He became a National Republican during the J.Q. Adams administration and joined the Whig Party in 1834.
Never married.
Active in the North Carolina Bible Society [Raleigh Register 12/17/1841]
At the time of his death, Williams was called the "father of the House," meaning that he had the longest continuous service. [NYC Weekly Herald, 4/30/1842]
Died in Washington, D.C., February 23, 1842; interment in Panther Creek Cemetery, Surry County, N.C.
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