WILLIAMS, JOHN, soldier, lawyer. United States senator was born in 1778 in Surry County, N. C. He served till the close of the war with Great Britain, and was then elected United States senator from Tennessee to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected, serving from 1815 till
1823. He died Aug. 10, 1837, in Knoxville, Tenn.
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JOHN WILLIAMS, 1807.
Born in Surry county, North Carolina, January 29, 1778. Lawyer. Removed to Tennessee. Appointed a Charter Trustee of East Tennessee College, 1807. Attorney General for the State, 1807-1808. A Commissioner of Knoxville, 1810. Captain Sixth Infantry United States Army; Colonel of Mounted Tennessee Volunteers; Commissioned Colonel of Thirty-ninth United States Infantry, 1813; served in Creek War and at the battle of the Horse Shoe. Member of the United States Senate, 1815-1823. United States Minister to Guatemala, 1825. Chairman of the first meeting of the stockholders of the projected Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad Company, Knoxville, 1837, and elected one of the first Board of Directors. Died in Knox county, August 10, 1837. (Coldwelts Bench and Bar.)
[Explanatory Note. The date set opposite the name of each Trustee indicates the year of his first connection with the University as Trustee; either by election by the Board of Trustees pending confirmation by the Legislature, or by direct Legislative appointment without previous election by the Board.
When the name of the State is not given the present State of Tennessee is to be understood. The terms Southwestern Territory or Territorial Government refer to the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio.]
[University of Tennessee record, Volume 1 By University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1898- Transcribed by AFOFG]

WILLIAMS, Lewis, (brother of John Williams, of Tennessee, and Robert Williams and cousin of Marmaduke Williams), a Representative from North Carolina; born in Surry County, N.C., February 1, 1782; was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1808; member of the State house of commons in 1813 and 1814; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth through the Seventeenth Congresses; reelected to the Eighteenth as a Crawford Republican; reelected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses as an Adams; reelected to the Twenty-first through the Twenty-fourth Congresses as an Anti-Jacksonian; reelected to the Twenty-fifth through the Twenty-seventh Congresses as a Whig and served from March 4, 1815, until his death; chairman, Committee on Claims (Fifteenth through Twenty-first Congresses), Committee on Territories (Twenty-third Congress); died in Washington, D.C., February 23, 1842; interment in Panther Creek Cemetery, Surry County, N.C.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States 1774-present.)

WILLIAMS, LEWIS, congressman, was born Feb. 1, 1786, in Surry County, N. C. He entered the house of commons of his native state in 1813, and was re-elected in 1814. He was a representative in congress from 1815 to 1842, where for his many good qualities and his long service, he was known as the Father of the House. He died Feb. 20, 1842, in Washington, D. C.
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WILLIAMS, ROBERT, congressman, governor, was born July 12, 1773, in Surry County, N. C. He was an adjutant-general of North Carolina; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1797 to 1803. He was appointed commissioner of land titles in Mississippi territory in 1803, and was governor of the territory of Mississippi from 1805 to 1809. He died about 1820 in Louisiana.
[Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century; Edited by Thomas William Herringshaw; Publ. 1901; Donated and Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack]