Fred O. Wilson

Fred O. Wilson (born July 24, 1903 in Tempe , Arizona , † after 1962) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

Fred O. Wilson, son of Edna Ozanne and Walter S. Wilson, was born in Maricopa County in 1903 . His father was born in Texas in 1878 . Walter S. Wilson was in one of the first graduate classes at Tempe State Teachers College . He taught at Fort McDowell, Maricopa County and served as a clerk in the Maricopa County Superior Court for 35 years . Miss Ozanne was born in Wisconsin in 1880 and also became a teacher. She has taught in Tempe and at the Grande Avenue School in Phoenix, Maricopa County. Her father brought the family to Arizona in 1886 and founded the Tempe National Bank. Fred O. Wilson attended public schools. He graduated from Creighton School in Phoenix and from high school in the same city.

In the following years he studied law and then practiced as a lawyer. He was admitted to the United States Supreme Court on May 24, 1937. From 1938 to 1942, he lived in Washington, DC and worked as an assistant lawyer for the Federal Security Agency (FSA). Then he spent two years in Denver ( Colorado ) for the same authority as Assistant Regional Attorney operate. In the late 1940s he held a number of senior civil servant positions in Arizona: Assistant Attorney at the Employment Security Commission, Assistant Attorney at the Arizona Industrial Corporation Commission, and Assistant Attorney General of Arizona.

Wilson ran unsuccessfully for a Democratic nomination for the post of Attorney General of Arizona in 1944. In the Democratic primary election in 1948, he prevailed against Yale McFate. He then defeated his Republican challenger Laurens Henderson in the following elections . Wilson was re-elected once. In his second re-election in 1952, he suffered a defeat to Republican Ross F. Jones . Wilson held the post from 1949 to 1953.

After the end of his tenure as Attorney General, he resumed his practice as a lawyer. At that time he was still living in Phoenix. In 1954 he moved to Show Low ( Navajo County ), where he continued to work as a lawyer. In the following years he was City Attorney in Show Low and Springerville ( Apache County ). In the early 1960s he worked as a Navajo County Attorney.

literature

• Peplow, Edward Haduck: History of Arizona , Volume 3, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1958, p. 232

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fred O. Wilson on the Our Campaigns website
2. ^ Opinion No. 61-73 , October 24, 1961
3. ↑ Letter Opinion No. 61-147-L , November 10, 1961
4. ^ Opinion No. 62-9 , January 17, 1962