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Williams, Elihu S

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 24, 1835, in Bethel township, Ohio. He enlisted as a private in the seventy-first Ohio volunteer infantry; and was commissioned firstlieutenant in 1862. He was promoted to captain in 1863. He was attorney-general of the sixth judicial district of Tennessee from 1865 till 1867; and was elected to the Tennessee house of representatives in 1867. He removed to Troy, Ohio, in 1875; and was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.

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