William Wilson (politician, 1773)

William Wilson (born March 19, 1773 in New Boston , Hillsborough County , New Hampshire Colony , † June 6, 1827 in Newark , Ohio ) was an American politician . Between 1823 and 1827 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Wilson attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1797 the Dartmouth College in Hanover . After a subsequent law degree and his license to practice law, he began to work in this profession around 1805 in Chillicothe (Ohio). In 1808 he moved to Newark, where he was presiding judge at the appeals court between 1808 and 1823. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In the 1820s he joined the movement against future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party .

In the congressional elections of 1822 Wilson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly established eighth constituency of Ohio , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1823. After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on June 6, 1827 . From 1825 to 1827 he was chairman of the Ministry of Post's Expenditures Control Committee.

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SURNAME	Wilson, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Boston , Hillsborough County , New Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH	June 6, 1827
Place of death	Newark , Ohio