WILLIAMS, Lewis, (brother of John Williams, cousin of Robert Williams, cousin of Marmaduke Williams, relative of John Sharp Williams, relative of Joseph Lanier Williams, relative of Christopher Harris 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 Democratic Republican to the Fourteenth and to the three succeeding Congresses; reelected as a Crawford Republican to the Eighteenth Congress; reelected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and to the succeeding Congress; reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses; and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and the two succeeding Congresses 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.
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