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Norris C. Williamson
Norris Charles Craft Williamson (July 31, 1874 – 1949) was a Mississippi native who served as a Democrat from 1924 to 1932 in the Louisiana State Senate. Brooks, who resided near Lake Providence, represented the delta parishes: Tensas, Madison, East Carroll, and Concordia,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2012 )〕 a rich farming region along the Mississippi River. He represented Vidalia, Ferriday, St. Joseph, and Tallulah. At the time, two state senators represented the four-parish district.
==Background==
Williamson was born in the now ghost town of Salem in Benton County, one of the six northernmost counties of Mississippi. His parents were the former Josephine Leggett and Albert W. Williamson. In 1897, Norris Williamson received his Bachelor of Science degree from Mississippi State University in Starkville, an institution then only seventeen years old. On July 4, 1897, he relocated to East Carroll Parish in far northeastern Louisiana to become a contractor in the construction of levees along the Mississippi River. In 1904, he purchased the Owenton Plantation. In 1920, he closed the construction business to devote full-time to the 4,000-acre Wilton Plantation, where he produced cotton, cattle, and grains. The historically black Union Baptist Church No. 1 was built on Williamson lands in 1928.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Georgia Pinkston, ''A Place to Remember'' )〕
In 1918, at age of forty-two, Senator Williamson married Sally Cooke (1887-1976), daughter of H. Brent Cooke and the former Rachel Wilson of Louisville, Kentucky. In 1922, he joined others in the organization of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation and was a member of the original board of directors. In 1923, he worked to organize the Louisiana and the American cotton cooperative associations. Williamson co-founded and served on the executive committee of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. In 1928, he and Sally adopted a seven-year-old daughter, Norris Williamson, who later married Joseph Lawrence Brock. Norris Brock died in 1948 at the age of twenty-seven, a year before her father's passing. In 1944, twelve years after Williamson's Senate tenure ended, ''Progressive Farmer'' magazine declared him "Man of the Year" because of his service to agriculture. Williamson was a member of the Masonic lodge.〔〔Frederick W. Williamson and George T. Goodman, eds. ''Eastern Louisiana: A History of the Watershed of the Ouachita River and the Florida Parishes'', 3 vols. (Monroe: Historical Record Association, 1939, pp. 770-773〕
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