John Sharp Williams, pictured here c. 1902, was one of Wilson’s few close friends among the hundreds of legislators he worked with in Trenton and Washington. The senior senator from Mississippi, who earned his law degree from the University of Virginia, had an intellectual bent—he studied in Europe, imbibed the great works of the Western canon, and authored a book on Thomas Jefferson. An unapologetic white supremacist, for years he attempted to amend the Anthony Amendment to apply only to white women.
Source photograph: Barnett McFee Clinedinst, photographer; New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Print Collection.
Date: c. 1902 (1901–03)
John Sharp Williams, pictured here c. 1902, was one of Wilson’s few close friends among the hundreds of legislators he worked with in Trenton and Washington. The senior senator from Mississippi, who earned his law degree from the University of Virginia, had an intellectual bent—he studied in Europe, imbibed the great works of the Western canon, and authored a book on Thomas Jefferson. An unapologetic white supremacist, for years he attempted to amend the Anthony Amendment to apply only to white women.
Source photograph: Barnett McFee Clinedinst, photographer; New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Print Collection.
Date: c. 1902 (1901–03)