Background
Williams, Ashton Hilliard was born on August 15, 1891 in Lake City, South Carolina, United States. Son of Asbury H. and Harriet Viola (Fulmore) Williams.
Williams, Ashton Hilliard was born on August 15, 1891 in Lake City, South Carolina, United States. Son of Asbury H. and Harriet Viola (Fulmore) Williams.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity South Carolina., 1912. Graduate law school Georgetown University, 1915.
Born in Lake City, South Carolina, Williams received an Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Carolina in 1912 and an Bachelor of Laws from Georgetown University Law School in 1915. He was in private practice in South Carolina from 1914 to 1952. He served in the Democratic National Executive Committee from South Carolina from 1948 to 1949.
On June 17, 1952, Williams was nominated by President Harry South. Truman to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina vacated by Julius Waties Waring.
Williams was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 2, 1952, and received his commission on July 3, 1952. Williams served in that capacity until his death, in 1962.
The sole basis for faith is the Bible and it is infallible.
He was a member of the Lake City Council from 1916 in 1917. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1921 to 1922, and then of the South Carolina State Senate from 1923 to 1926.
Married Constance Rawles Redd.