After his initial election, the senior Williams never faced any opposition for the office, which he held for twenty-eight years. Lewis Williams was a schoolteacher and basketball coach, but rural Cumberland County High School was unable to pay him sufficient salary to support his family so he ran for clerk of the Cumberland County Fiscal Court. The only child of Lewis and Flossie Williams, David Williams was born in Burkesville in Cumberland County, Kentucky, on May 28, 1953. In November 2012, Williams resigned his Senate seat to accept a circuit court judgeship. However, he lost the general election by twenty points to incumbent Democratic Governor Steve Beshear.
On May 17, 2011, Williams secured the Republican nomination over Tea Party movement-backed Phil Moffet. In September 2010, he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor in the 2011 gubernatorial election. When Republicans gained control of the state senate in 2000, Williams was chosen as President of the Senate, and held that post continuously until his resignation in November 2012.
From the year 1987 to 2012, Williams represented Senate District 16, a position he secured upon the retirement of fellow Republican Doug Moseley. David Lewis Williams (born May 28, 1953) is an American attorney, Republican politician, and a judge from the U.S.
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