William Jones Youngs (June 24, 1851 – April 27, 1916) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
[2] Later that year he was appointed Assistant District Attorney of Queens County, an office he held until 1875.
[5] In 1878, Youngs was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing the Queens County 1st District.
[7] He resigned in 1898 to serve as newly elected governor Theodore Roosevelt's private secretary.
[10] He then became editor of The Hempstead Inquirer, and at the time of his death he was United States Commissioner of the Eastern District.