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Williams, Charles G

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1829, in Royalton, N. Y. He was a presidential elector in 1868; and was elected to the state senate for two years. was elected to the forty-third and fortyfourth congresses; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses. In 1883 he was appointed register of a land district in southern Dakota.

In and WILLIAMS, CHARLES KILBOURNE, soldier, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Jan. 24, 1782, in Cambridge, Mass. 1812 he served during one campaign on the northern frontier. Between 1809 and 1821 he was several times a representative in the Vermont legislature; again in 1849. He was state's attorney in 1814 and 1815; was a judge of the supreme court from 1822 to 1824, and from 1829 to 1842; and was collector of customs for the district of Vermont from 1825 to 1829. He was chief justice of the supreme court of Vermont from 1843 to 1846; and was president of the council of censors in 1847. He was governor of Vermont from 1850 to 1852. He died March 9, 1853, in Rutland, Vt. / WILLIAMS, CHARLES LANGDON, lawyer, author, was born in 1821 in Rutland, Vt. He practiced law in Brandon, Vt., in 1844-48, and afterward in Rutland.

He published Statistics of the Rutland County Bar, with biographical sketches; Statutes of Vermont; and vols. xxvii.xxix. of Vermont Supreme Court Reports. He died Feb. 10, 1861, in Rutland, Vt.