Morton S. Wilkinson

Morton S. Wilkinson

Morton Smith Wilkinson (* 22. January 1819 in Skaneateles , Onondaga County , New York ; †  4. February 1894 in Wells , Minnesota ) was an American politician of the Republican Party , of the State of Minnesota in both houses of Congress represented.

Wilkinson, who grew up in New York State, moved to Illinois in 1837 , where he worked in track construction for two years. After returning to Skaneateles, he studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1842 and practiced first in Eaton Rapids in the Minnesota Territory , then from 1847 in Stillwater .

It was there that his political career began in 1849 with membership in the parliament of the territory . From 1851 to 1853 he was head of the land registry ( Register of Deeds ) in Ramsey County . After another move to Mankato in 1858, he was appointed to a commission that should create a code of law for the Minnesota Territory.

After Minnesota's admission to the Union, Morton Wilkinson became a US Senator for his state on March 4, 1859 . After six years he tried in vain for re-election and had to leave the Congress on March 3, 1865. During his time in the Senate, among other things, he was chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims . From March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1869, Wilkinson then served a term in the House of Representatives of the United States ; his party no longer nominated him for re-election.

From 1874 to 1877, Morton Wilkinson served as State Senator in Minnesota; between 1880 and 1884 he held the post of district attorney in Faribault County . In 1894 he died in Wells, where he had spent the last years of his life.

Web links

• Morton S. Wilkinson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Morton S. Wilkinson in the database of Find a Grave (English)