Sherrod Williams
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Biography
Sherrod Williams was born in 1804 in Pulaski County, Kentucky,[1] and he moved with his parents to Wayne County in childhood. He received a limited education, but had learned the trade of brickmaker in Monticello when about fifteen years of age.[1] He studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced law.
His sons included Thomas Hansford Williams, the former Attorney General of California from 1858 to 1862;[2] and George E. Williams (1835–1899), a former member of the California State Assembly's 15th District, from 1873 to 1875.[2][3]
He served as member of the Kentucky State House of Representatives from 1829 to 1834, and in 1846. Williams was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian Whig to the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1841). He served as chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions (Twenty-sixth Congress). He was not a candidate for reelection.
He moved to California, where he died in San Jose, California on March 24, 1876.[4] He was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in San Francisco, he was moved to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park.[3]
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- 1804 births
- 1876 deaths
- People from Pulaski County, Kentucky
- Censured or reprimanded members of the United States House of Representatives
- Kentucky Whigs
- National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky
- Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives
- Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (San Francisco)
- 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
- 19th-century members of the Kentucky General Assembly