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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeChristopher Harris WILLIAMS
(1798-1857)
WILLIAMS, Christopher
Harris, (grandfather of John Sharp Williams), a
Representative from Tennessee; born near Hillsboro, Orange County,
N.C., December 18, 1798; pursued an academic course and attended
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; studied law; was
admitted to the bar about 1820 and practiced; elected as a Whig to
the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses
(March 4, 1837-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; elected to the
Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3,
1853); was not a candidate for renomination in 1852; resumed the
practice of law in Lexington, Henderson County, Tenn., and died
there November 27, 1857; interment in Lexington Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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