Francis H. Wilson

Francis Henry Wilson ( born February 11, 1844 in Clinton, New York, † September 25, 1910 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Francis Henry Wilson lived up to his tenth year in Utica, when his family moved to Westmoreland Farm. He attended the district school, and Dwight 's Preparatory School in Clinton and graduated in 1867 at Yale College. After that, he taught for four years at a preparatory school. Wilson graduated in 1875 from Columbia College Law School in New York City. In 1882 he was admitted as a lawyer and then began practicing in New York City. He was one of the Union League Club and in the years 1888 and 1889, its founder President.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1894 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph C. Hendrix on March 4, 1895. However, he resigned on September 30, 1897 resigned his Congress seat to be postmaster. Wilson was appointed in October 1897 to the postmaster of the then independent city of Brooklyn - a position which he held until December 1901. He died on 25 September 1910 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery.