About Henderson Williams
Henderson Williams was an American politician.
Henderson Williams was a state legislator in Louisiana who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives for Madison Parish. He was first elected in 1868, and again to serve in the 1870-1872 session. Henderson was one of the African-American legislators who appealed to U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant in a January 9, 1872 letter to intervene in a dispute with fellow Republican governor Henry C. Warmoth.
February 10, 1872, he and other African-American legislators signed a letter in support of Warmoth. He also co-signed a letter calling for the removal of James F. Casey as collector of the Port of New Orleans.
In 1869, Williams and Curtis Pollard were authorized to operate a ferry in Madison Parish.
He died August 1874.
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Louisiana state representative
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Henderson Williams died in 1874.
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