Robert L. Williams
Governor of Oklahoma; politician (1868-1948) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 79
Robert Lee Williams was an American lawyer, judge, and the third governor of Oklahoma. Williams played a role in the drafting of the Oklahoma Constitution and served as the first Oklahoma Supreme Court chief justice.
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Oklahoma Governor Williams supported fellow Democrat and 28th President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924, served 1913-1921), during World War I (1914/1917-1918). President Wilson was the first Democrat to be elected Chief Executive since Grover Cleveland in two decades, in 1884 and 1892, and before of James Buchanan way back in 1856. He would later appoint former Governor and state Chief Justice Williams as a federal judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
32nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, served 1933-1945), appointed former state Chief Justice, Governor and U.S. District Court judge Williams to the higher level United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.About this person
He also served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. As third Governor, Williams oversaw the state's response to the recent United States Supreme Court's ruling against Jim Crow laws and its involvement in the First World War (1914/1917-1918). He instituted the Oklahoma State Board of Affairs which provided central purchasing services to various state departments, agencies, boards and bureaus. Due to his direct administrative role and concentration of power, Governor Williams counteracted the previous loss of executive power and disagreements with the Oklahoma Legislature under previous second Governor Lee Cruce.
