Joseph G. Wilson

Joseph Gardner Wilson (born December 13, 1826 in Acworth , New Hampshire , † July 2, 1873 in Marietta , Ohio ) was an American lawyer and politician . In 1873 he represented the state of Oregon in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Wilson moved to Cincinnati , Ohio with his parents in 1828 . They later settled in Hamilton County . Joseph attended public schools there until 1840. Between 1840 and 1842 he was at Cary's Academy and until 1846 at Marietta College . After completing a law degree at the Cincinnati Law School and his admission to the bar in 1852, he moved over the Oregon Trail to what was then the Oregon Territory , where he worked as a lawyer in Salem .

In 1853 he became a protocolist in the Territorial House of Representatives. Between 1860 and 1862 he was a district attorney in Marion County and from 1864 to 1866 and between 1868 and 1870 he was a Justice of the Oregon State Supreme Court . After that he practiced as a lawyer again.

Wilson was a member of the Republican Party . In 1870 he ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives. In the next congressional elections in 1872 he was then elected as a member of Congress . His term of office there began on March 4, 1873. Joseph Wilson was unable to exercise his mandate: He died before the first session of the new Congress on the way to Washington on July 2, 1873.

Since 1854 Joseph Wilson was married to his wife Elizabeth. The couple had four children together. His seat in the House of Representatives fell to his cousin James Nesmith after his death .

Web links

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

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