Williamson, William, 1875-1972

LC control no.	no2006132272
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Williamson, William, 1875-1972 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Other standard no.	6916856 http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6916856 0000000048786146 http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000048786146 31763232 http://viaf.org/viaf/31763232 Q1406704 http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1406704
Located	Plankinton (S.D.) Wayne (Neb.)
Birth date	1875-10-01
Death date	1972-07-15
Place of birth	Mahaska County (Iowa)
Place of death	Custer (S.D.)
Affiliation	United States. Congress. House University of South Dakota. University of South Dakota. School of Law
Profession or occupation	Legislators Lawyers Teachers Republican Party members (United States)
Found in	Remarks of Hon. William Williamson of South Dakota in the House of Representatives, Friday April 23, 1926, 1926. Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong., 1774-2005 (Williamson, William; b. Oct. 7, 1875; d. July 15, 1972) Biographical directory of the U.S. Congress, August 1, 2018 (Williamson, William, a Representative from South Dakota; born near New Sharon, Mahaska County, Iowa, October 7, 1875; moved with his parents to Plankinton, Aurora County, S.Dak., in 1882; attended the public schools and the Wayne (Nebr.) Normal School; engaged in agricultural pursuits and also taught school for several years; was graduated from the University of South Dakota at Vermilion in 1903 and from the law department of that university in 1905; was admitted to the bar in 1905 and commenced practice in Oacoma, Lyman County, S.Dak.; founder, with his brother, of the Murdo Coyote and the Prairie Sun; prosecuting attorney of Lyman County 1905-1911; circuit judge of the eleventh judicial district 1911-1921; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1912; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1933); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; resumed the practice of law in Rapid City, S.Dak.; special assistant attorney general of South Dakota and assigned as general counsel for the Public Utilities Commission 1939-1951, and also the Department of Insurance of South Dakota the last five years; officer with an insurance company, 1950-1972; member of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission 1928-1972; died in Custer, S.Dak., July 15, 1972; interment in Pine Lawn Cemetery, Rapid City, S.Dak.) <http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000553>
Associated language	eng