Honorific-Prefix: | The Honorable |
Myron B. Williams | |
Office: | Indiana Superior Court Judge |
Appointer: | James D. Williams |
Term Start: | March 1877 |
Term End: | January 3, 1881 |
Successor: | L. C. Walker |
Office1: | District Attorney of Jefferson County, Wisconsin |
Term Start1: | January 4, 1869 |
Term End1: | January 6, 1873 |
Predecessor1: | D. F. Weymouth |
Successor1: | N. Steinaker |
Term Start2: | January 5, 1863 |
Term End2: | January 7, 1867 |
Predecessor2: | Hiram Barber Jr. |
Successor2: | D. F. Weymouth |
Order3: | 6th |
Title3: | Mayor of Watertown, Wisconsin |
Term Start3: | April 1860 |
Term End3: | April 1862 |
Predecessor3: | Calvin B. Skinner |
Successor3: | William M. Dennis |
State4: | Wisconsin |
State Senate4: | Wisconsin |
District4: | 12th |
Term Start4: | June 5, 1848 |
Term End4: | January 7, 1850 |
Predecessor4: | Position established |
Successor4: | Peter H. Turner |
Party: | Democratic |
Death Date: | (aged 67) |
Death Place: | Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
Restingplace: | Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana |
Myron B. Williams (c. 1817December 7, 1884) was an American lawyer, Democratic politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He was important in the establishment and early development of Watertown, Wisconsin, and represented Jefferson County in the Wisconsin State Senate during the 1st and 2nd legislatures (1848, 1849).
Myron Williams settled at Watertown, Wisconsin, sometime in the 1840s, and was described as the second practicing lawyer in the village.[1] In 1848, in the first election for state officers after Wisconsin was admitted to the Union, Williams was elected to represent Jefferson County in the Wisconsin State Senate. Over the next 30 years, he would serve as a county supervisor, city councilmember, school board member, postmaster, mayor, and district attorney in Jefferson County.[1] [2]
He moved to Indiana in the mid-1870s, where Governor James D. Williams appointed him Judge of the Marion County Superior Court in 1877, when an additional court was instituted by the legislature.[3] Williams served as the 1882 President of the Indianapolis Bar Association.[4] He died in Indianapolis, Indiana, at the age of 67, from inflammation of the bowels following a brief illness.[3] [5]
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