Joseph Williams (December 8, 1801 – March 31, 1870)
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was a justice of the Kansas Territorial Supreme Court, and later chief justice of the
Iowa Supreme Court
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. He served the court during Iowa's time as a
territory
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. He was the state's second (1847-1848) and fourth chief justice (1849-1855).
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1801 births
1870 deaths
People from Muscatine County, Iowa
Justices of the Iowa Supreme Court
Chief justices of the Iowa Supreme Court
19th-century Iowa state court judges
Kansas Territory judges
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