George Henry Williams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

George Henry Williams

American Lawyer, judge and politician

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1823

Place of Birth: New Lebanon, New York, United States

Date of Death: 04-Apr-1910

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About George Henry Williams

  • George Henry Williams (March 26, 1823 – April 4, 1910) was an American judge and politician.
  • He served as Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, was the 32nd Attorney General of the United States, and was elected Oregon's U.S.
  • senator, and served one term.
  • Williams, as U.S.
  • senator, authored and supported legislation that allowed the U.S.
  • military to be deployed in Reconstruction of the southern states to allow for an orderly process of re-admittance into the United States.
  • Williams was the first presidential Cabinet member to be appointed from the Pacific Coast.
  • As attorney general under President Ulysses S.
  • Grant, Williams continued the prosecutions that shut down the Ku Klux Klan.
  • He had to contend with controversial election disputes in Reconstructed southern states.
  • President Grant and Williams legally recognized P.
  • B.
  • S.
  • Pinchback as the first African American state governor.
  • Williams ruled that the Virginius, a gun-running ship captured by Spain during the Virginius Affair, did not have the right to bear the U.S.
  • flag.
  • However, he argued that Spain did not have the right to execute American crew members.
  • Nominated for Supreme Court Chief Justice by President Grant, Williams failed to be confirmed by the U.S.
  • Senate primarily due to Williams's removal of A.
  • C.
  • Gibbs, United States District Attorney at Portland, Oregon.In 1875, Williams resigned as U.S.
  • Attorney General under the controversy of his wife allegedly taking payment money from the custom house firm Pratt & Boyd in order to drop litigation by the U.S.
  • Justice Department.
  • After his resignation, Williams took part in counting Florida ballots for Rutherford B.
  • Hayes in settling the controversial presidential election of 1876.
  • Williams returned to Oregon, resumed private law practice, and was elected Portland's mayor, serving two terms from 1902 to 1905.
  • Williams advocated women's suffrage and that marriage and divorce proceedings needed to be handled by the civil courts rather than the church.
  • Williams, at the age of 83, was indicted while Mayor of Portland for not enforcing gambling restriction statutes; he was acquitted and served out the rest of his term as mayor.
  • On May 28, 1905, Mayor Williams made a speech at the opening ceremony of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition.
  • Williams was the second to last surviving cabinet member of the Grant Administration.

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