Thomas Wilson (politician, 1827)

Thomas Wilson

Thomas Wilson (born May 16, 1827 in Dungannon , Ireland , † April 3, 1910 in St. Paul , Minnesota ) was an American lawyer and politician .

Wilson immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1839, where the family settled in Venango County , Pennsylvania . He attended Allegheny College in Meadville and studied law. He was inducted into the bar in February 1855, practicing law in Winona , Minnesota . In 1857, Wilson was a member of the Minnesota Constituent Assembly ( Minnesota constitutional convention ). He became associate judge at the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1864 and took over the chairmanship of that court as Chief Justice that same year , which he held until his resignation in July 1869.

From 1880 to 1882 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Minnesota , and then from 1882 to 1885 the Senate of Minnesota . Then Wilson was elected as a Democrat in Congress and represented there from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1889, the state of Minnesota in the House of Representatives of the United States . He did not succeed in being re-elected. His candidacy for governor in 1890 was also unsuccessful. In 1892 Wilson was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago . He then worked until his death as Head of Legal for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad . He died in St. Paul in 1910 and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Winona.

Web links

• Thomas Wilson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Thomas Wilson in the database of Find a Grave (English)