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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJohn WILLIAMS
(1778-1837)
Senate Years of Service:
1815-1823Party: Democratic
RepublicanWILLIAMS, John, (brother
of Lewis Williams and Robert Williams, father of Joseph Lanier
Williams, and cousin of Marmaduke Williams), a Senator from
Tennessee; born in Surry County, N.C., January 29, 1778; completed
preparatory studies; captain in the Sixth Regiment, United States
Infantry 1799-1800; studied law in Salisbury, N.C.; admitted to the
bar of Knox County, Tenn., in 1803 and commenced practice in
Knoxville, Tenn.; captain of regular troops in the War of 1812 and
was colonel of a regiment of East Tennessee Mounted Volunteers in
the expedition against the Seminole Indians in Florida in 1812 and
1813; colonel of the Thirty-ninth Regiment, United States Infantry,
in 1813, and subsequently served under General Andrew Jackson in
the expedition against the Creek Indians in Alabama; elected in
1815 as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of George W. Campbell; was
subsequently appointed to fill the vacancy in the regular term
caused by a recess of the legislature; was then elected in 1817 and
served from October 10, 1815, to March 3, 1823; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Military Affairs
(Fourteenth through Seventeenth Congresses); appointed by President
John Quincy Adams as Charge d’Affaires to the Central
American Federation 1825-1826; member, State senate 1827-1828; died
near Knoxville, Tenn., August 10, 1837; interment in the First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Maiden, Leota Driver. “Colonel John
Williams.” East Tennessee Historical Society’s
Publications 30 (1958): 7-46; Heiskell, S.G. ”Col. John
Williams.” In Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee
History, vol. 1, pp. 490-96. 1918. 2d ed. Nashville: Ambrose
Printing Co., 1920.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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