DeSoto County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Williamson, George September 29, 1829 - 
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Source: A History of Louisiana, v.3, p. 15; 1925
Author: Henry E. Chambers

GEORGE MCWILLIE WILLIAMSON, lawyer and diplomat, was born in the Fairfax 
district of South Carolina, September 29, 1829. He was the son of Tirzah Ann 
McWillie and Thomas Taylor Williamson; and great-grandson of Captain John 
Williamson, officer in the Revolutionary war. He was graduated from the South 
Carolina College in 1850 and after being admitted to the bar practiced his 
profession at Mansfield, Louisiana, where he rose to eminence in his 
profession, becoming district attorney and United States attorney. He was one 
of the dominant members of Louisiana’s Secession Convention of 1861, a signer 
of the Ordinance. When the war between the states began he entered the 
Confederate army with the rank of captain and soon reached the grade of 
colonel. He served on the staffs of Generals Polk, Magruder and E. Kirby Smith, 
and was wounded at Shiloh and Murfreesboro. After the war he went back to the 
law as a member of the firm of Egan, Williamson & Wise, his partners being 
among the most prominent attorneys in North Louisiana and his own status being 
equal to theirs. In 1867 he was elected to the United States Senate, but, like 
the other Southern Senators of that time, was not permitted to take his seat. 
Between 1873 and 1880 he was envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary 
to Central America. After his return to the United States he resumed the 
practice of law at Shreveport and was appointed general counsel for the Texas 
and Pacific Railroad. He also was called to represent the United States 
Government in the French Spoliation Claims adjustment.

	He was twice married, first at Dunboyne Plantation. Iberville Parish, 
to Eleanor Angela Isabel, daughter of Col. E. J. W. Butler and Frances Parke 
(Lewis) Butler, granddaughter of Lawrence Lewis Washington and Eleanor Parke 
Custis, nephew and adopted daughter of George Washington. His second wife was 
Mary Lee Marshall, of De Soto Parish, Louisiana. He had six children by his 
first marriage and five by his second. One of his sons is George Williamson, 
the eminent Louisiana educator, archaeologist, instructor in the Louisiana 
State Normal College at Natchitoches, Louisiana, and member of the Advisory 
Council for this present work.

Additional Comments:
George McWillie Williamson, born Fairfax District, S.C.

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