James D. Williams
James Douglas Williams (January 16, 1808 – November 20, 1880), nicknamed Blue Jeans Bill, was a farmer and Democratic politician who held public office in Indiana for four decades, and was the only farmer elected as the Governor of Indiana, serving from 1877 to 1880. He also spent twenty-eight years in the Indiana General Assembly, and was well known for his frugality and advocacy of agricultural development.
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It leads as often as not
to our undoing.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)