1867–1931) was a former coal miner, school principal and church minister who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1929 and 1931.

Williams was born around 1867[1] in Utah and began work in a coal mine when he was "little more than 8, to support his mother, his father having died when he was a baby."

He became a minister of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, preached and traveled through Europe as a missionary.

[2][3] Williams's first run for the City Council was in 1911, when he came in seventeenth in a field of eighteen at-large candidates, with the highest nine being elected.

He appeared before a group of farmers in Orange County and told them that "if the law would injure California's prosperity the Socialists would not want to see it passed.