Williams won election to the state House of Representatives and represented the 20th District as a Republican for one term, from 1917 to 1919. a liberal political association founded in 1919, with the ultimately unsuccessful hope of launching a third political party in opposition to increasingly conservative
Republican and
Democratic politics. In August, 1920, she represented the
Farmer-Labor Party in a "triangular political discussion" alongside congressional candidate E.K. Brown (representing the Republicans) and the honorable J.J. Miller representing the Democrats. The event in
Wapato drew "an immense crowd from all parts of Yakima County." == Personal life ==