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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South DakotaWilliam WILLIAMSON
(1875-1972)
WILLIAMSON, William, a
Representative from South Dakota; born near New Sharon, Mahaska
County, Iowa, October 7, 1875; moved with his parents to
Plankinton, Aurora County, S.Dak., in 1882; attended the public
schools and the Wayne (Nebr.) Normal School; engaged in
agricultural pursuits and also taught school for several years; was
graduated from the University of South Dakota at Vermilion in 1903
and from the law department of that university in 1905; was
admitted to the bar in 1905 and commenced practice in Oacoma, Lyman
County, S.Dak.; founder, with his brother, of the Murdo Coyote and
the Prairie Sun; prosecuting attorney of Lyman County 1905-1911;
circuit judge of the eleventh judicial district 1911-1921; delegate
to the Republican National Convention in 1912; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the five succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1933); chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Sixty-eighth and
Sixty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in Executive
Departments (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress;
resumed the practice of law in Rapid City, S.Dak.; special
assistant attorney general of South Dakota and assigned as general
counsel for the Public Utilities Commission 1939-1951, and also the
Department of Insurance of South Dakota the last five years;
officer with an insurance company, 1950-1972; member of the Mount
Rushmore National Memorial Commission 1928-1972; died in Custer,
S.Dak., July 15, 1972; interment in Pine Lawn Cemetery, Rapid City,
S.Dak.
Bibliography
Williamson, William. William Williamson; Student, Homesteader,
Teacher, Lawyer, Judge, Congressman & Trusted Friend; An
Autobiography. Rapid City, S.Dak.: The Author, 1964.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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