Marmaduke Williams was a Democratic-Republican US Congressman from North Carolina from 1803 to 1809.
13 Facts About Marmaduke Williams
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Marmaduke Williams was a brother of Mississippi Territorial Governor Robert Williams.
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Marmaduke Williams was first cousin of the brothers: Robert Williams, John Williams and Lewis Williams.
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Marmaduke Williams studied law and was admitted to the North Carolina bar.
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Marmaduke Williams was elected to the North Carolina State Senate, serving 1802, and then was elected that same year to the 8th United States Congress.
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Marmaduke Williams declined to run for a fourth term and moved to the Mississippi Territory in 1810, then to Huntsville, Alabama, and by 1819, to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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Marmaduke Williams was part of the people who pleaded in favor of the "zeal and patriotic spirit" of the people "west of the Allegany", at a time when US Easterners doubted the right-standing faith of Western settlers.
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Marmaduke Williams was a delegate to the Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1819 and ran unsuccessfully that year for the post of Governor of Alabama against William Wyatt Bibb.
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Marmaduke Williams was the first Tuscaloosan to run for governor, and wanted to make Tuscaloosa the State's capital.
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Marmaduke Williams served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1821 to 1839, was the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama from 1835 to 1841 and was a judge of the Tuscaloosa County court from 1832 to 1842.
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Marmaduke Williams died in Tuscaloosa in 1850 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
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Marmaduke Williams built the Greek Revival three-story house in Tuscaloosa's Druid City Historic District.
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Marmaduke Williams then gave it to his daughter Agnes Payne Williams and her husband Hopson Owen.