William was born in Indiana and went to Minnesota at any Early age.After completing his education,he served in the legal department of Northern Pacific Railroad.He opened his own law firm in St.Paul before World War II.
In 1920,he was president-elector at the Republican State Convention.William and his wife were instrumental in getting an anti-lynching law passed in the Minnesota Sate Senate in the 1920s.
His deep concern about the fate of his people is summed up in these words:
"The solution of the whole problem...is simple justice; a recognition of the fact
that the rights of the humblest citizen are so worthy of protection as those of the highest."In 1927,he was appointed U.S. Minister to Liberia,Africa,by President Calvin Coolidge.William died two years later in of yellow fever in Monrovia.
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