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Williams, George Henry

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 26, 1823, in New Lebanon, N. Y. During 1847-52 he was judge of the first judicial district of Iowa; was presidential elector in that state in 1852; chief justice of Oregon territory during 1853-57; and a member of the convention to frame a constitution for Oregon. During 1865-71 he was a senator in the United States congress; was a member of the high joint commission for the settlement of the Alabama claims; and during 1871-74 was attorney-general of the United States. WILLIAMS, GEORGE HUNTINGTON, educator, author, was born in 1856 in New York. He was a professor of inorganic geology at Johns Hopkins university from 1892; and the author of Elements of Crystallography. He died in 1894.