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Jeremiah M. P. Williams

?–1884

United States

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Jeremiah M. P. Williams (died June 24, 1884) was a Baptist preacher and state legislator in Mississippi. He served several terms in the Mississippi Senate during and after the Reconstruction era. He represented Adams County, Mississippi. He was one of the incorporators of the Mississippi Printing and Publishing Company. In 1870 he was Corresponding Secretary of the Colored Missionary Baptist Convention. He was designated to give the introductory sermon at its 1876 meeting. He died in Minorville, Mississippi.

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