Delano E. Williamson

Delano Eccles Williamson (August 19, 1822 - May 2, 1903) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the seventh Indiana Attorney General from November 3, 1864, to November 3, 1870.

Biography Early life and education Williamson was born in Florence, Kentucky to Robert and Lydia (née Madden) Williamson. Robert Williamson was a descendant of Elliott Williamson, an early Irish immigrant to the Thirteen Colonies who fought in the Revolutionary War in the Continental Army under George Washington. Lydia Madden belonged to the old Hollingsworth Quaker family who settled in Pennsylvania around the same time as William Penn.

In 1872, Williamson traveled across Central and Southern Indiana to campaign for the re-election of former Governor Morton to the U.S. Senate. In 1876, during the Indiana Republican Party convention in Greencastle, Williamson ran to be the party's nominee for a seat in Congress, but he failed to secure the nomination. In 1892, Williamson left the Republican Party and became a Democrat once more, opposing the GOP's fiscal and tariff policies. In 1892, Williamson returned to the practice of law, opening a firm with his son, Badger Williamson. In 1894, he was the Democratic nominee for a seat in the General Assembly to represent Putnam, Montgomery, and Clay counties, but he was defeated.

Personal life and death In the 1880s, Williamson helped to run the short-lived Putnam County Bank in Greencastle. Williamson was also a member of the Puntam County Bar Association. Williamson was a Royal Arch Mason.

In 1842, while living in Bowling Green, Williamson married Elizabeth Elliott, daughter of the county clerk he was working under at the time. They had four children, two sons and two daughters. One of their sons, Robert E. Williamson, served in the Union Army at the Battle of Antietam. Williamson wed again in 1861 to Carrie Badger, daughter of a local priest in Greencastle. With Badger, Williamson had two more children, one son and one daughter.

Williamson died in Greencastle in 1903.