Eugene McLanahan Wilson

Eugene McLanahan Wilson ( born December 25, 1833 in Morgantown, Virginia, † April 10, 1890 in Nassau, British West Indies ) was an American politician.

Born in what is now West Virginia Eugene Wilson attended Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania and studied law. In 1855 he was admitted to the legal profession and practiced in Winona, Minnesota. From 1857 to 1861 he was the Federal Attorney for the District of Minnesota and resided in Minneapolis. He then continued his lawyer in Minneapolis. During the Civil War he served in the Union Army as a captain in Company A of the First Minnesota Mounted Rangers.

Wilson was elected as a Democrat to the 41st Congress, and represented there from March 4, 1869 until March 3, 1871 the Minnesota House of Representatives of the United States. In 1870, he decided not to run for re-election and instead began to practice law again. 1872 and 1874 he was elected mayor of Minneapolis, respectively. In 1874 he ran again for a seat in the House of Representatives, but was able to win a mandate. 1876 ​​was Wilson delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, and from 1878 to 1879 he was a member of the Minnesota Senate. 1888, Wilson applied unsuccessfully for the governorship of Minnesota. He died on April 10, 1890, during a stay in Nassau, as he was there to recover his ailing health. Wilson was buried at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.

Wilson came from a family that produced many politicians. So his father Edgar Campbell Wilson, his grandfather Thomas Wilson and his great-grandfather Isaac Griffin had been a Member of the House of Representatives of the United States.