Persistent Advocate

ID: 2913 ~ Source: “Benjamin Franklin Williams.” Photograph. State Preservation Board. https://lrl.texas.gov/legeleaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=4193; Pitre, Merline. “Williams, Benjamin Franklin (1819-1886).” Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. July 27, 2022. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/williams-benjamin-franklin.
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Persistent Advocate

A minister and advocate for civil rights, Benjamin Franklin Williams won a seat at the Constitutional Convention in 1968-69 and was, like Mullens, elected to the Twelfth Legislature for Lavaca and Colorado Counties in 1871.

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