John Haden Wilson
John Haden Wilson ( born August 20, 1867 in Nashville, Tennessee, † January 28, 1946 in Butler, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1921 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Even in his birth year John Wilson came with his parents to Harmony in Butler County, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools of his new home and then some colleges in Pennsylvania. After a subsequent law studies and his 1893 was admitted to a lawyer, he began in 1896 to work in Butler in this profession. In the meantime, he taught as a teacher. For three years he was a member of the National Guard of Pennsylvania. In this time that became known under the name of Homestead Riots social unrest, where the National Guard was used fell. Between 1906 and 1934, with the exception of his years as a congressman, Wilson was a legal representative of the city of Butler. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1916, 1932, 1936 and 1940, he participated as a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions, to which Woodrow Wilson and later Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated as the presidential candidate.
After the death of Mr Edward Everett Robbins, who was re-elected in 1918, but died on January 25, 1919, Wilson was at the due election for the 22 seats of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1919. Since he has not been confirmed in 1920, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1921. During this time, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the prohibition of Alkohohlhandels and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.
After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Wilson practiced first as a lawyer again. Between 1933 and 1943 he worked in Butler County as a judge. He died on 28 January 1946 in Butler, where he was also buried.