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Carlyle Dougan Williamson (1886-1959) was born in Leadville, Colorado, and became a cashier at Carbon State Bank in Hanna, Wyoming, in 1909. The bank was reorganized into the First National Bank of Hanna in 1920 and again in 1927 to the Hanna State & Savings Bank. Williamson became president of the bank in 1930 and served in that capacity until 1955. The bank was liquidated in 1955 following the closure of the Union Pacific Railroad's coal mines in the area. In 1955 Williamson and his family moved to Laramie, Wyoming, and he helped to found the Bank of Laramie. He later served as president of the First National Bank of Laramie following the buy-out of the Bank of Laramie in 1957.

In 1916 Williamson became affiliated with P.J. Quealy, the receiver of the Carbon Timber Company which conducted logging and tie cutting operations in Carbon and Albany Counties, Wyoming, and was often Wyoming's sole producer of ties for the Union Pacific Railroad. Williamson and Quealy reorganized the company into the Wyoming Timber Company, with Williamson serving as president. He was also closely associated with the Quealy Land and Livestock Company, which was also owned by Quealy, and helped to found the Intermountain Telephone Company of Hanna in 1912. The Wyoming Timber Company also held interest in the Wyoming Timber Lands Company and the Megeath Coal Company, both of Hanna, Wyoming.

Williamson served as a state representative for Carbon County as a Republican in 1933 and chaired the Wyoming Commerce and Industry Commission from 1947 to 1951. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Wyoming's governorship in 1950.