Samuel Walker Williams
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Samuel Walker Williams (1848 – 1921) became a Virginia lawyer, Commonwealth attorney for Bland County and judge after serving as a Confederate soldier and before defeating fellow former Confederate but
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Samuel H. Newberry to serve as a
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in the
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and decades later as
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. Williams unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 1896. The library at
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holds his papers.https://aspace.lib.vt.edu/repositories/2/resources/1438


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Samuel W. Virginia lawyers Virginia attorneys general University of Virginia School of Law alumni Virginia state senators people from Pittsylvania County, Virginia people from Bland County, Virginia 1921 deaths 1848 births 19th-century members of the Virginia General Assembly 20th-century members of the Virginia General Assembly