William Wilson (Pennsylvania politician)

William Wilson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 10th district
In office
March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1819
Serving with Jared Irwin (1815–1817)
David Scott (1817)
John Murray (1817–1819)
Preceded byIsaac Smith
Jared Irwin
Succeeded byGeorge Denison
John Murray
Personal details
PartyRepublican
OccupationPolitician

William Wilson (c1777-1859) was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1815 to 1819, representing the 10th congressional district of Pennsylvania as a Republican in the 14th United States Congress and the 15th United States Congress.[1]

Wilson's time in office began on March 4, 1815, and concluded on March 3, 1819. He missed 16 of the 219 roll call votes taken between December 1815 and March 1819.[2]

A land surveyor by profession, Wilson married Henrietta Graham Van Horn, the widow of U.S. representative Espy Van Horn, in about 1839. Wilson died in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, on April 2, 1859.[3]

References

  1. ^ "WILSON, William". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 4, 2007.
  2. ^ "Rep. William Wilson". GovTrack. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
  3. ^ Egle, William Henry (1897). Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical, Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania. Harrisburg Publishing Company. p. 102.

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