Riley J. Wilson

Riley J. Wilson

Riley Joseph Wilson (born November 12, 1871 in Goldonna , Natchitoches Parish , Louisiana , †  February 23, 1946 in Ruston , Louisiana) was an American politician . Between 1915 and 1937 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Riley Wilson attended public schools in his home country including Beeson College in Arcadia . He then graduated from the Iuka Normal Institute in Mississippi in 1894 . Between 1895 and 1897 he taught as a teacher at Harrisonburg High School in Louisiana. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1898, he began to work in Harrisonburg in his new profession.

Politically, Wilson became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1898 he was a member of an assembly to revise the state constitution of Louisiana. From 1898 to 1904 Wilson was the newspaper "Catahoula News" out. Between 1900 and 1904 he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives . He was then from 1904 to 1910 district attorney in the eighth judicial district of that state. For the next four years until 1914 he was a judge in the same district.

In the 1912 congressional election , Wilson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of his state , where he succeeded James Walter Elder on March 4, 1913 . After ten re-elections, he was able to complete eleven consecutive terms in Congress by January 3, 1937 . The First World War fell during this time . In addition, six amendments to the constitution were passed between 1913 and 1933 . Since 1929, the work of the US House of Representatives has also been shaped by the events of the Great Depression. From 1917 to 1919 Wilson was chairman of the electoral committee; from 1931 to 1937 he headed the committee that dealt with flood protection. In 1920 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco , where James M. Cox was nominated as a presidential candidate. In 1928 he applied for the office of governor of Louisiana, but was defeated in the primary of his party Huey Long .

In 1936, Riley Wilson was not nominated by his party for another term in Congress. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he retired from public life. He died in Ruston on February 23, 1946.

Web links

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• Riley J. Wilson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Riley J. Wilson in the database of Find a Grave (English)