Morgan B. Williams was a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

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Morgan B. Williams was born in Rhandir-Mwyn (Llanfair-ar-y-bryn

Llanfair-ar-y-bryn

Llanfair-ar-y-bryn is a community located on the A483 just north of Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales.The Llanfair-ar-y-bryn church stands on the Alabum site, a Roman auxiliary fort, and was the parish church until 1883. William Williams Pantycelyn who is generally acknowledged as Wales's most...

, Carmarthenshire

Carmarthenshire

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, Wales

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) and attended the public schools. He went to Australia

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 in 1856 and returned to Wales in August 1861.

He immigrated to the United States

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 in March 1862 and settled in Scranton, Pennsylvania

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, where he worked in the coal

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 mines. He moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

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, in September 1865. He was appointed superintendent for the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., and held that position for fourteen years. He was a member of the school board and of the city council for twelve years. He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate

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 in 1884, and was a member of the Chicago World’s Fair

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 Commission.

Williams was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth

55th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:* Republican: 206 * Democratic: 124* Populist: 22* Silver Republican: 3* Silver: 1* Independent Republican: 1TOTAL members: 357-Leadership:-Senate:* President: Garret Hobart * President pro tempore: William P...

 Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898. He remained engaged in coal mining, and was vice president and general manager of the Red Ash Coal Co. He died in Wilkes-Barre in 1903, aged 72, and was interred in Hollenback Cemetery.