William W. Wilson

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William Warfield Wilson (born March 2, 1868 in Ohio , Bureau County , Illinois , † July 22, 1942 in Chicago ) was an American lawyer and politician who was the long-time representative of the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Life

After attending public schools in his hometown, Wilson studied at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . After a subsequent postgraduate study of law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law , he was admitted to the bar in 1893 and took up a position as a lawyer in Chicago.

In 1902 he was elected as a candidate of the Republican Party for the first time to the US House of Representatives and represented there from March 4, 1903 to March 3, 1913 the third congressional electoral district of Illinois. In the 1912 congressional elections , he suffered a defeat against his Democratic challenger George E. Gorman . Against this he won in the subsequent congressional elections in 1914, so that he was again a member of the US House of Representatives from March 4, 1915 to March 3, 1921.

After he had renounced a renewed candidacy in 1920, he was from 1922 to 1927 Chief Justice of the Alien Property Custodian , a government agency for the fiduciary administration of property confiscated from enemies of the United States. After finishing this activity he worked again as a lawyer and was buried in the Union Cemetery in Chicago after his death .

Web links

  • William W. Wilson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)