MILLSBORO, De - The John J. Williams marker is located in Millsboro at the corner of West and Washington streets. It stands near his long time home that he and his wife Elsie built in 1927. Williams was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1946. His role in exposing fraud in the Bureau of Revenue (the predecessor to today's IRS) earned him the nickname "The Conscious Of The Senate." The office inside the home has been kept in tact from the time he utilized it.
Williams was friends with Presidents Richard Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower. Eisenhower would visit Williams at his Rehoboth Beach cottage during the summer. Legend has it that that is how the city earned the nickname "The Nation's Summer Capital." Following his retirement from the Senate in 1971, Williams continued to live in the home until his death in 1988. When Elsie passed away two years later, the home was conveyed to Delaware Tech where plans are being developed to expand the home's existing conference center.