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Williams, Thomas Scott

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born June 26, 1777, in Wethersfield, Conn.

He represented the town of Hartford in the Connecticut general assembly for seven terms, from 1813 to 1829. He was elected a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1817 to 1819. In 1829 he was appointed an associate judge of the supreme court of errors, and in 1834 was appointed chief justice. He was mayor of the city of Hartford from 1831 to 1835, and in 1847 resigned his position as chief justice. He was a presidential elector in 1.848, and was, for twenty years, president of the American asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. He died Dec. 15, 1861, in Hartford, Conn.