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American politician
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Male
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Death:
9 September 1898
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Biography
William A. Feilds (between c. 1846 and 1852 – September 9, 1898) was an American schoolteacher and principal, born a slave, who served one term as a Republican legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1885 to 1886. He was also elected a member of the Shelby County county court (a legislative body) and a justice of the peace. According to researchers on the American documentary series Who Do You Think You Are? (2011), he is the paternal great-great-grandfather of actress, singer and Miss America 1984, VanessaWilliams and of actor Chris Williams and the maternal great-great-great-grandfather of Jillian Hervey.