Background
Williams, John Skelton was born on July 6, 1865 in Powhatan County, Virginia, United States. Son of John Langbourne and Maria Ward (Skelton) Williams.
Financier publicist railway executive
Williams, John Skelton was born on July 6, 1865 in Powhatan County, Virginia, United States. Son of John Langbourne and Maria Ward (Skelton) Williams.
Educated Richmond, Virginia, and University of Virginia.
Organizer, president, 1899-1904, Seaboard Air Lincolnshire Railway System. Chairman trust company section and member executive council American Bankers’ Association, 1901. Organizer and president of banks, trust companies and industrial institutions, from all of which he retired upon appointment by President Wilson, March 1913, to office of 1st assistant secretary of Treasury.
By invitation of Interstate Commerce Commission was member of advisory board on valuation of railroad, steamship telegraph and telephone lines.
Appointed by President Wilson, January 1914, comptroller of the currency. (The Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Agriculture and comptroller of the currency composed the organization committee which under the Federal Reserve Acting, was charged with the duty of organizing and putting into effect the new banking and currency system.) Reapptd. comptroller of the currency, 1919.
Resigned March 2, 1921. Director divisions of Finance and Purchases of the United States.R.R. Administration by appointment of Director General McAdoo, 1917-1918.
Member Capital Issues Committee under appointment of President Wilson, February 1918-March 1919.
Member Capital Issues Committee under appointment of President Wilson, February 1918-March 1919. Member Central Committee and national treasurer, American Red Cross under successive appointments by President Wilson, 1913-1921. President Richmond Trust Company, since 1924.
Married Lila Lefebvre Isaacs, 1895.