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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name = Samuel Wardell Williams<br />
|image = Samuel Williams.jpg<br />
|office = [[Majority Leader]] of the <br>[[Indiana House of Representatives]]<br />
|term = 1885<br />
|office1 = Member of the <br>[[Indiana House of Representatives]]<br>from [[Knox County, Indiana|Knox County]]<br />
|term_start1 = 1882<br />
|term_end1 = 1886<br />
|birth_name = <br />
|birth_date = {{birth date|1851|02|07}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Mount Carmel, Illinois|Mount Carmel]], [[Illinois]], [[United States]]<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|1913|08|05|1851|02|07}}<br />
|death_place = [[Vincennes, Indiana|Vincennes]], [[Indiana]], United States<br />
|party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]<br>[[People's Party (United States)|Populist]]<br />
|spouse = <br />
|children = <br />
|alma_mater = <br />
|religion = <br />
}}<br />
'''Samuel Wardell Williams''' (February 7, 1851 &ndash; August 5, 1913) was an American judge who is best known for being the [[People's Party (United States)|Populist Party]]'s nominee for [[Vice President of the United States]] in the [[1908 United States presidential election|election of 1908]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=176120.55;wap2|title=Public Offices held by Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates|publisher=US Election Atlas|accessdate=November 5, 2016}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Williams was born in [[Mount Carmel, Illinois]] in 1851. At some point, he moved to Indiana and became a judge.<br />
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In [[1904 United States presidential election|1904]], he was one of the candidates for the Populist Party's nomination for president and served as chairman of the Populist Committee.<ref name=Watson1913>{{cite book|author=Thomas Edward Watson|title=Watson's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E4VTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA350|year=1913|publisher=Jeffersonian Pub. Co.|page=350}}</ref> He came in third place at the convention, receiving 45 votes on the first ballot. [[Thomas E. Watson]] received 698 votes, and [[William V. Allen]] received 319.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=272805|title=US President - Pop Convention 1904|publisher=Our Campaigns|date=November 26, 2005|accessdate=November 5, 2016}}</ref><br />
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Williams served in the [[Indiana House of Representatives]] and was a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] at the time of his election to the [[Indiana General Assembly]].<ref>'Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the State Bar Association of Indiana 1914,' Harrington & Folger Press, Indianapolis, Indiana: 1914, Biographical Sketch of Samuel W. Williams, pg. 238</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZJQAAAAYAAJ&q=samuel+wardell+williams&pg=PA407|title=History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present; with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc.; Together with an Extended History of the Colonial Days of Vincennes, and Its Progress Down to the Formation of the State Government|year=1886}}</ref><br />
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In 1908, Williams was the vice presidential nominee of the Populist Party, running with Thomas E. Watson.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Independent|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GZRAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA774|year=1908|publisher=Independent Corporation|page=774}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/12/26/106780172.pdf|title=S. W. Williams, Populist Leader, III|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 26, 1909|accessdate=November 5, 2016}}</ref> They received 28,862 votes (0.19%), performing best in Watson's home state of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], where they received upwards of 12%.<ref>{{Leip PV source 2| year=1908| as of=September 10, 2012}}</ref><br />
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Williams died of [[appendicitis]] on August 5, 1913, in [[Vincennes, Indiana]], at the age of 62. He is buried at Greenlawn Cemetery in Vincennes.<ref name=Watson1913/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://genealogytrails.com/ind/knox/death_notices.html|title=S. W. Williams Dies in Indiana|date=August 6, 1913|accessdate=November 5, 2016}}</ref><br />
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