Stephen Fowler Wilson

Stephen Fowler Wilson ( born September 4, 1821 in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, † March 30, 1897 in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1869 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Wilson received an academic education. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In addition, he held in his home some local offices. Later he became a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. Between 1863 and 1865 he was a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania. In June 1864 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Baltimore, was nominated to the President Abraham Lincoln for re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1864 Wilson was the 18th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Tracy Hale on March 4, 1865. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1869 two legislative sessions. During this time the civil war ended in April 1865. During his time in Congress were also the 13th and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution ratified. Since 1865 the work of the Congress of the tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson was charged, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment.

Between 1871 and 1881 was Stephen Wilson Richter in the fourth Judicial District of Pennsylvania. In 1884 he was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in the New Mexico Territory; 1887 to 1889 he was Chief Judge of the fourth judicial district of Pennsylvania. He then practiced as a lawyer again. He died on March 30, 1897 in Wellsboro, where he was also buried.