BIO: John Williams; New York State
surname: Williams

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

     John Williams, Commissioner of Labor, was born in North Wales in 1865.
He was the son of a contractor and he learned his father's business. When
twenty-two years of age he came to the United States and found employment in
Utica, first as a bookkeeper and then as a journeyman carpenter. In 1897 he
was elected an Assemblyman from the First District of Oneida County. Upon the
conclusion of his term in 1899 Governor Roosevelt appointed him a State Factor
Inspector. When the various divisions of the Department of Labor were
consolidated in 1901 Mr. Williams was appointed First Deputy Labor
Commissioner under Commissioner McMackin and he continued to hold that
position until placed at the head of the Department.