Stephen Taylor Williams (born 1955/1956)[2] is an American politician who served as the 47th mayor of Huntington, West Virginia from 2013 to 2025.
On June 19, 2017, Williams announced that he would stand in the 2018 race for West Virginia's 3rd congressional district, which was an open seat after the incumbent congressman, Evan Jenkins, declared to run against Joe Manchin for the Senate.
[10][11] During the spring and summer of 2013, Williams's administration organized a citywide cleanup effort and planned increased enforcement of local ordinances like those that prohibited tall grass and the storage of furniture and construction materials in yards or on porches.
[12] The city planned to hire additional code enforcement officers, reinstate the Fire Department's Fire Prevention Bureau and seek the ability to issue citations on-the-spot, rather than after a ten-day warning period, from the West Virginia State Legislature.
[17] In 2024, Williams lost the 2024 West Virginia gubernatorial election to the republican candidate Patrick Morrisey.