Samuel Croudson Williams (September 13, 1812 – May 12, 1862) was a nineteenth-century American politician from

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...

Early life

Williams was born in

Woodstock, Virginia Woodstock is a town in and the county seat of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. It has a population of 5,212 according to the 2010 United States Census, 2017 census. Woodstock comprises 3.2 square miles o ...

in 1812.

Career

As an adult, Williams made his home in Shenandoah County. Williams was appointed Deputy Clerk of Shenandoah County for ten years, and Clerk from 1845-1862 at his death. From 1841-1843, Williams was elected to the General Assembly. An active partisan Democrat, Williams was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention of 1844, 1848, 1852 and 1856. In 1850, Williams was elected to the

Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 was an assembly of elected delegates chosen by the voters to write the fundamental law of Virginia. It is known as the Reform Convention because it liberalized Virginia political institutions. Backgro ...

. He was one of four delegates elected from the Valley delegate district made up of his home district of Shenandoah County as well as Hardy and Warren Counties. Williams was an officer of the

Manassas Gap Railroad The Manassas Gap Railroad (MGRR) ran from Mount Jackson, Virginia, to the Orange and Alexandria Railroad's Manassas Junction, which later became the city of Manassas, Virginia. Chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in 1850, the MGRR was a n ...

Company. Williams was elected to the

Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 The Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 was called in the state capital of Richmond to determine whether Virginia would secede from the United States, govern the state during a state of emergency, and write a new Constitution for Virginia, whi ...

and voted for secession. During the

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, Williams was elected the captain of a rifle company that he commanded at Harper’s Ferry.

Death

Samuel Croudson Williams died in Woodstock, Virginia on May 12, 1862. Pulliam 1901, p. 109

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Samuel Croudson Members of the Virginia House of Delegates 1812 births 1862 deaths People from Woodstock, Virginia People of Virginia in the American Civil War 19th-century members of the Virginia General Assembly