Thomas Hill Williams

Thomas Hill Williams
Thomas Hill Williams
United States Senator; from Mississippi
	In office; December 10, 1817 – March 4, 1829
Preceded by	Position Established
Succeeded by	Thomas B. Reed
Personal details
Born	1780; Surry County, North Carolina
Died	1840 (aged 59–60); Robertson County, Tennessee
Political party	Democratic-Republican, Jacksonian

Thomas Hill Williams (1780 – 1840^[a]) was a senator from Mississippi. Born in North Carolina, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced. He was register of the land office for the Territory of Mississippi in 1805, secretary of the Territory in 1805, and Acting Governor in 1806. He was reappointed secretary in 1807, and was again Acting Governor in 1809. In 1810 he was collector of customs at New Orleans, and was a delegate to the state constitutional convention.

Upon the admission of Mississippi as a State into the Union in 1817, Williams was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the U.S. Senate. He was reelected as a Jackson Republican (later Jacksonian) in 1823 and served from December 10, 1817, to March 3, 1829; while in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Public Lands (Sixteenth Congress). He moved to Tennessee, where he died, in Robertson County, in 1840.

References

^ Although his Congress Bio Guide gives his lifespan as 1780–1840, other sources have given it as January 14, 1773 – December 7, 1850^[1]

^ NC Pedia: Thomas Hill Williams

U.S. Senate
Preceded by None	U.S. senator (Class 2) from Mississippi 1817–1829 Served alongside: Walter Leake, David Holmes, Powhatan Ellis, Thomas B. Reed, Powhatan Ellis	Succeeded by Thomas B. Reed

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[birth-2] Although his Congress Bio Guide gives his lifespan as 1780–1840, other sources have given it as January 14, 1773 – December 7, 1850^[1]

[1] NC Pedia: Thomas Hill Williams

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v t e United States senators from Mississippi
Class 1	Leake Holmes Ellis Reed Ellis Black Trotter T. Hickman Williams Henderson Speight Davis McRae S. Adams Davis Ames Pease Bruce George Money J. Williams Stephens Bilbo Stennis Lott Wicker
Class 2	T. Hill Williams Reed R. Adams Poindexter Walker Chalmers Foote Brooke Brown Revels Alcorn Lamar Walthall McLaurin Walthall Sullivan McLaurin Gordon Percy Vardaman Harrison Eastland Doxey Eastland Cochran Hyde-Smith

v t e Chairmen of the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Public Lands (1816–1921)	Morrow Williams Thomas Barton King Kane Poindexter Ewing Walker Smith Woodbridge Breese Felch Borland Dodge Stuart Johnson Harlan Pomeroy Sprague Oglesby McDonald Plumb Dolph Berry Dubois Hansbrough Nelson Smoot Chamberlain Myers Smoot
Public Lands and Surveys (1921–1947)	Smoot Lenroot Ladd Stanfield Nye Kendrick Wagner Adams Hatch
Interior and Insular Affairs (1947–1977)	Butler O'Mahoney Butler Cordon Murray Anderson Jackson
Energy and Natural Resources (1977–)	Jackson McClure Johnston F. Murkowski Bingaman F. Murkowski Bingaman Domenici Bingaman Wyden Landrieu L. Murkowski Manchin

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