Jeremiah Norman Williams

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Born near Louisville, Alabama, Williams attended the preparatory schools of Barbour County and was graduated from the University of South Carolina at Columbia in 1852.He studied law in Montgomery and Tuskegee.He was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Clayton, Alabama. Volunteered for service in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War and was made captain of the Clayton Guards, later becoming major of the First Regiment, Alabama Infantry.

Williams was elected a member of the State house of representatives in 1872, but was not allowed to take his seat.

Williams was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879).He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Forty-fifth Congress). Chancellor of the third division 1893-1899.He resumed the practice of law in Clayton, Alabama.He served as member of the State constitutional convention in 1901.He died in Clayton, Alabama, May 8, 1915.He was interred in the City Cemetery.

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