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==Reform-minded state representative==
==Reform-minded state representative==
On February 6, 1968, Williamson was one of seven Democrats elected at-large to the state House of Representatives for Caddo Parish. The only incumbent Republican who ran that year, [[Taylor O'Hearn|Taylor Walters O'Hearn]] (1908-1998) of Shreveport, led his party ticket but failed to dislodge a single Democratic candidate. [7]
On February 6, 1968, Williamson was one of seven Democrats elected at-large to the state House of Representatives for Caddo Parish. The only incumbent Republican who ran that year, [[Taylor W. O'Hearn|Taylor Walters O'Hearn]] (1908-1998) of Shreveport, led his party ticket but failed to dislodge a single Democratic candidate. [7]
In 1970, Williamson voted for a two-cent increase in the state sales tax pushed by then Governor [[John J. McKeithen]] to provide pay raises for teachers and state employees. Williamson said that the vote for the sales tax hike was politically unpopular and cost many members their seats in the 1971-1972 election cycle, including even the Speaker of the House, [[John Sidney Garrett]] of Claiborne Parish. Williamson said that he too may have failed to have been reelected to the House had he run for a second term. Instead, he ran for the newly established single-member District 39 seat in the state Senate. Prior to the 1971 cycle, Louisiana legislators had often been chosen at-large within a parish or from among two or more parishes and not by separate districting. He beat his principal competitor, Caddo Parish Police Juror David Richard Carroll, Sr. (born 1926), a fellow Democrat. [8]
In 1970, Williamson voted for a two-cent increase in the state sales tax pushed by then Governor [[John J. McKeithen]] to provide pay raises for teachers and state employees. Williamson said that the vote for the sales tax hike was politically unpopular and cost many members their seats in the 1971-1972 election cycle, including even the Speaker of the House, [[John Sidney Garrett]] of Claiborne Parish. Williamson said that he too may have failed to have been reelected to the House had he run for a second term. Instead, he ran for the newly established single-member District 39 seat in the state Senate. Prior to the 1971 cycle, Louisiana legislators had often been chosen at-large within a parish or from among two or more parishes and not by separate districting. He beat his principal competitor, Caddo Parish Police Juror David Richard Carroll, Sr. (born 1926), a fellow Democrat. [8]