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William Williams 1731-1811, political leader in the American Revolution , signer of the Declaration of Independence , b. Lebanon, Conn. He served in the French and Indian War and held many public offices before becoming a Connecticut delegate (1776-78, 1783-84) to the Continental Congress.

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Williams, William Carlos

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Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963) US poet. His deceptively simple style incorporates colloquial American. Williams' early work shows the influence of imagism. His most monumental achievement was Paterson (1946–58), a five-volume epic of American life as seen in the microcosm of a New Jersey city. His Pictures from Brueghel (1962) won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize and his Collected Poems appeared in 1986–88.

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