Senator James F. Wilson

WILSON, CURTIS, MCDILL

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall (email)
Date: 12/12/2005 at 05:30:03

James F. Wilson, of Fairfield, was born at Neward, Ohio, October 19, 1828; learned the harness-maker's trade, and worked at it for eight years, during which time he pursued his educational studies and acquired a thorough education; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1851, and commmenced the practice of his profession in his native town; removed to Iowa in 1853; was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention of Iowa in 1856; was a member of the State Legislature of Iowa in 1857, '59 and '61, serving the last year as President of the Senate; was elected a Representative in Congress from Iowa, in 1861, for th eunexpired term of General S.R. Curtis; was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses, serving from December 2, 1861, to March 3, 1869; was a member of the Judiciary Committee of the House during the entire period of his service, and was its chairman during the last six yaers of his membership; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed James Wilson McDill, Republican, and took his seat December 4, 1883, and was re-elcected in 1888. His term of service will expire March 3, 1895.

-source: Official Congressional Directory, Fifty-First congress, First Session, Third Ed., Corrected to May 10, 1890; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890; Iowa Senators; pg. 39

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