Edgar Wilson

Edgar Wilson ( born February 25, 1861 Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, † January 3, 1915 in Boise, Idaho ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897, and 1899-1901, he represented the state of Idaho in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

Edgar Wilson was born not far from Pittsburgh. He attended the common schools and then studied until 1884 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Jura. In the same year he moved to the Idaho Territory, where he settled in Boise and practiced as a lawyer. In 1887 he was legal representatives of this city and 1888 district attorney.

Political career

Edgar Wilson was a member of the Republican Party. In 1890 he was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Idaho. In the congressional elections of 1894 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced Willis Sweet on March 4, 1895. Until March 3, 1897, he completed a term in Congress. In 1896 he opted not to run again because he had been nominated for a judgeship on his state Supreme Court. However, he was not appointed to this office. Therefore he stood as a candidate in the elections of 1898 again for Congress and could replace James Gunn, who was two years earlier became his successor after his election victory on March 4, 1899. In the then hotly debated question of whether the currency should be backed by gold or silver, Wilson was a supporter of the group that campaigned for the silver version.

After the end of his term in Congress on March 3, 1901 Edgar Wilson withdrew from politics. He again worked as a lawyer in Boise, where he died in 1915.