Ralph Williams (politician)

Ralph Williams (fl. 1870s) was a magistrate and state legislator in Mississippi. He documented as having been enslaved from birth. He established a wagon manufacturing business in Lamar, Mississippi after the end of the American Civil War in 1866. He served as a magistrate from 1871 until 1873 when he served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1873-1875 for Marshall County, Mississippi.

See also

• African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era

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