Early Life
Williams was born in Baltimore, Maryland. As a resident of Glen Burnie, Maryland, he was bussed to Andover High School in neighboring Linthicum, Maryland where he was elected president of both his junior and senior classes. He was a good student, athlete and musician and active in county-wide student government issues in Annapolis, Maryland. His father, Herman Williams, Jr., was a firefighter who in 1992 became Baltimore's first African-American Fire Chief. Montel has five siblings including his 52-year-old brother James.
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