Joseph Williams (December 8, 1801 – March 31, 1870)Kansas: The Territorial and District Courts
was a justice of the Kansas Territorial Supreme Court, and later chief justice of the

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. He served the court during Iowa's time as a

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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 {{Iowa-politician-stub