Thomas Hill Williams

Thomas Hill Williams (January 14, 1773 – December 7, 1850) was a United States Senator from Mississippi, one of the first two senators from that state. He served two terms of office, from 1817 to 1829, retiring to Tennessee after his retirement from politics.

Biography

Thomas Hill Williams was born in North Carolina, growing up just east of the Pee Dee River in rural Anson County. He was reelected as a Jackson Republican (later Jacksonian) in 1823, leaving the body with the expiration of his second term on March 3, 1829.

While a member the Senate Williams was a member of the Naval Affairs committee in five of his six Congresses and of the Public Lands committee in three of them. He was chairman of the Committee on Public Lands (Sixteenth Congress). He was a supporter of the Missouri Compromise during the session of 1820-21.

Williams moved to Tennessee after he left the Senate, declining a chance at reelection or any form of public office. He died of dropsy in Robertson County on December 7, 1850.