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Williams, James Douglas

agriculturist, state senator, congressman, governor, was born Jan. 16, 1808, in Pickaway county, Ohio. He was elected to the Indiana state legislature in 1843, 1847, 1851, 1856, and 1868. He was elected state senator in 1858, 1862 and 1870. He was a member of the state board of agriculture for seventeen years, serving four years of the time as president. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fourth congress. In 1876 he was elected governor of Indiana for the term of four years from 1877. He died Nov. 20, 1880, in Indianapolis, Ind.