Frank E. Wilson

Frank Eugene Wilson (born December 22, 1857 in Roxbury , New York , † July 12, 1935 in Brooklyn , New York) was an American doctor and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1899 and 1905 and between 1911 and 1915 .

Career

Frank Eugene Wilson was born and raised in Roxbury approximately three and a half years before the outbreak of the Civil War . He attended public schools and the Poughkeepsie Military Academy . He graduated in 1882 at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania ) and practiced thereafter until April 1888 in Pleasant Valley . Wilson moved to the then independent city of Brooklyn, where he continued to work as a doctor. As a senior physician, he was director and member of the Board of Governors at Bushwick Hospital and visiting physician at the Swedish Hospital . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the congressional election of 1898 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Charles G. Bennett on March 4, 1899 . He was re-elected once. Then he ran for a seat in Congress in the fourth constituency of New York. After a successful election, he succeeded Harry A. Hanbury on March 4, 1903 . In his fourth candidacy, however, he suffered a defeat and stepped down after the March 3, 1905 Congress of. During his time as a congressman, he participated in 1900 as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention . Wilson was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the fourth constituency in the 1910 congressional election and succeeded Charles B. Law on March 4, 1911 . Two years later, he ran for a seat in Congress in the third constituency of New York. After a successful election, he succeeded James P. Maher on March 4, 1913 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1914 , he left the Congress after March 3, 1915.

He then resumed his work as a doctor in Brooklyn and practiced there until his death on July 12, 1935. His body was cremated and the ashes were buried in Roxbury Cemetery .

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SURNAME	Wilson, Frank E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wilson, Frank Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 22, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Roxbury , New York
DATE OF DEATH	July 12, 1935
Place of death	Brooklyn , New York