Jeremiah M. P. Williams (Adams County)

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Jeremiah M. P. Williams

State Senate: 1870-1874, 1878-1880

Died: June 24, 1884 in Minorville, MS

Baptist minister, formerly enslaved.

“In a widely circulated speech in 1871, State Senator Jeremiah M. P. Williams addressed the conflicting themes of factionalism, democracy, and black office holding. He warned of the growing power of the southern Democratic Party and implored his fellow citizens in Natchez to remain ‘true to one another.'”
(Justin Behrend, Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War, 2015)

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Signature of J. M. P. Williams from an 1871 petition to Governor Alcorn

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Weekly Mississippi Pilot, 7 May 1870

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Vicksburg Daily Times, 16 Jul 1870

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Petition to support Blanche K. Bruce as a trustee of Alcorn University, 13 May 1871

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Letter to Governor Alcorn, 8 Jun 1871

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Petition to Governor Ames, 21 Mar 1874

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Clarion-Ledger, 4 Mar 1875

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Weekly Democrat-Times, 24 Jun 1876

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Natchez Democrat, 25 Jun 1884

Jeremiah M. P. Williams