Abel Carter Wilder

Abel Carter Wilder ( born March 18, 1828 in Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † December 22, 1875 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician. Between 1863 and 1865 he represented the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, Abel Wilder was involved in trade. He later moved to Rochester in New York, where he was also engaged in the trade. In 1857 he moved to Leavenworth in Kansas Territory.

Wilder was a member of the Republican Party. In 1859 he was a delegate to the Constituent Assembly in Osawatomie. In 1860 he was a delegate and chairman of the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate. Am now following the Civil War he took a year long part as Captain of a unit of Kansas. 1862 Wilder was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Martin F. Conway on March 4, 1863. Until March 3, 1865, he was able to spend only one term in Congress, which was overshadowed by the events of the Civil War.

In the years 1864, 1868 and 1872 Wilder was again a delegate to the respective national conventions of his party, on which again President Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant was nominated as the presidential candidate later. 1865 Wilder returned to Rochester in New York, where he published two daily newspapers until 1868. In 1872 he was elected mayor of this city. From this office he resigned in 1873. He died two years later in San Francisco, where he had stopped for health reasons. Abel Wilder was buried in Rochester.