Christopher Harris Williams

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Christopher Harris Williams was an American politician who represented Tennessee's thirteenth and eleventh districts in the United States House of Representatives. He was born near Hillsborough, North Carolina on December 18, 1798. He pursued an academic course and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studied law, was admitted to the bar about 1820, and practiced law. He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses by Tennessee's thirteenth district. He served from March 4, 1837 to March 3, 1843. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress.

After the number of districts held by Tennessee had been reduced, he was elected by Tennessee's eleventh district to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses. He served from March 4, 1849 to March 3, 1853. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1852. He resumed the practice of law in Lexington, Tennessee and died there on November 27, 1857. He was interred in Lexington Cemetery.

This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.