Biography of Thomas Williams, Elmore, Alabama

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February 2002


THOMAS WILLIAMS, OF ALABAMA

     Thomas Williams, of Wetumpka, who represents the Fifth Congressional 
     District of Alabama in the Congress of the United States, and born in 
     Greenville County, Virginia, August 11, 1825, and in 1835 removed to his 
     present place of residence, where he has since continued to dwell.  His 
     early education was limited.  He is a planter and a lawyer by profession.  
     He was a member of the State Legislature in 1878.  He was elected to the 
     Forty-sixth and re-elected to the Forty-seventh Congress, as a Democrat, 
     without opposition.

Ref:  Headley, P. C., PUBLIC MEN OF TO-DAY, 1882, S. S. Scranton & Company, Hartford, p. 651.