His dad represented the Decatur area in Congress: >From the Handbook of Texas Online (where a much longer article tells all about him: Williams served as the representative of the Thirteenth District for a decade, sitting on the Committee on Insular Affairs and on the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Department. He was chairman of the Committee on Territories and in that capacity introduced a bill to grant independence to the Philippines. Although the bill failed, Williams's interest in the Pacific islands did not go unnoticed; today one of the main streets in Manila is named for the Texas congressman. Williams also argued for statehood for Hawaii. His other interests while in the House included oil, agriculture, and stock raising. Ill health forced Williams to resign from Congress in 1932.  >From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: WILLIAMS, Guinn, a Representative from Texas; born near Beuela, Calhoun County, Miss., April 22, 1871; moved with his parents to Texas and settled in Decatur, Wise County, in 1876; attended the public schools; graduated from the commercial branch of Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky., 1890; engaged in the livestock business, agricultural pursuits, and banking; county clerk of Wise County, Tex., 1898-1902; member of the State senate, 1920-1922; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Lucian W. Parrish; reelected to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (May 22, 1922-March 3, 1933); chair, Committee on Territories (Seventy-second Congress); was not a candidate for renomination to the Seventy-third Congress in 1932; manager of the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation in San Angelo, Tex., 1933; died on January 9, 1948, in San Angelo, Tex.; interment in Decatur Cemetery, Decatur, Tex. >From Martha in California On Apr 5, 2009, at 4:38:09 PM, "Mike Allen" <mike@gmallen.com> wrote: I think his dad was elected to the House of Representatives or something like that. --  Martha  Genealogy - So many ancestors...so little time!