Joseph Franklin Wilson

Joseph Franklin Wilson

Joseph Franklin Wilson (born March 18, 1901 in Corsicana , Texas , †  October 13, 1968 in Dallas , Texas) was an American politician . Between 1947 and 1955 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Wilson attended public schools in his homeland. In 1913 he came to Memphis , where he continued his schooling until 1916. During the First World War , he was at various military schools between 1917 and 1919. After a subsequent law degree at Baylor University in Waco and his admission to the bar in 1923, he began to work in this profession in Dallas. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . In June 1936 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , on which President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for re-election. From 1942 to 1945 he was regional party chairman for the Democrats in Dallas County . Between 1943 and 1944 he served as a district judge in the Texas Criminal Court.

In the 1946 congressional election , Wilson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of Texas , where he succeeded Hatton W. Sumners on January 3, 1947 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1955 . These were shaped by the events of the Cold War and the civil rights movement . In 1954, Wilson declined to run again.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, he was a judge at the Dallas Criminal Court from 1955 to 1968. In this capacity he was involved on November 22, 1963 in the swearing-in of the new President Lyndon B. Johnson , who this office fell after the assassination of John F. Kennedy . Joseph Wilson died on October 13, 1968 in Dallas, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Joseph Franklin Wilson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph Franklin Wilson in the database of Find a Grave (English)