James Clifton Wilson

James Clifton Wilson ( born June 21, 1874 in Palo Pinto, Palo Pinto County, Texas; † August 3, 1951 in Fort Worth, Texas) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1917 and 1919 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives; later he became a federal judge.

Career

James Wilson attended the public schools of his home and the Weatherford College. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Texas at Austin and his 1896 was admitted to the bar he began in Weatherford to work in this profession. From 1898 to 1900 he was deputy prosecutor in Parker County. Between 1902 and 1908 he was there district attorney. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1908 and 1912 he was district chairman of his party. In 1912, Wilson moved to Fort Worth, where he served until 1913 as a district attorney in Tarrant County. Between 1913 and 1917 he was a federal prosecutor for the northern part of the State of Texas.

In the congressional elections of 1916, Wilson was in the twelfth electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Oscar Callaway on March 4, 1917. He was reelected in 1918, but resigned his second term no longer in Congress. His time in Congress was marked by the events of the First World War. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Wilson was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to the judge at the Federal District Court for the northern part of Texas. This office he held from 1919-1947. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on August 3, 1951 in Fort Worth, where he was also buried.