Emmett Wilson

Emmett Wilson ( born September 17, 1882 in Belize, British Honduras, † May 29, 1918 in Pensacola, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1917 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his childhood moved with his parents to Wilson Chipley, Florida, where he attended the public schools. He then studied at Florida State College in Tallahassee. After the end of his studies he was employed by the railroad in the telegraph service. Later he worked as a stenographer. After a subsequent law degree from Stetson University in DeLand, and its made ​​in 1904 admitted to the bar he began in Marianna to work in his new profession. In 1906 he moved his residence and his law firm to Pensacola. Between 1907 and 1909 he was first deputy and then chief responsibility for the Federal Attorney for the Northern District of Florida; 1911 to 1913, he served as a prosecutor in the first judicial district of Florida.

Politically, Wilson was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1912 he was in the third electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Dannite H. Mays on March 4, 1913. After a re-election in 1915 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1917 two legislative sessions. At this time there the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted.

In 1916, Emmett Wilson was not nominated by his party for re-election. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer in Pensacola. There he died on 29 May 1918.