George H. Wilson

George Howard Wilson ( born August 21, 1905 in Mattoon, Illinois, † 16 July 1985 in Enid, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1949 and 1951 he represented the eighth election district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Wilson moved at a young age with his parents to Enid, Oklahoma. There he attended the public schools, including Phillips University, where he graduated in 1926. After studying law at the University of Michigan and the University of Oklahoma, he was admitted to the bar in 1929. Then he started in Enid at work in his new profession. Between 1934 and 1938, Wilson worked as a special investigator for the FBI; 1939 to 1942 he was a legal representative of the city Enid. During World War II he served as a colonel in the Legal Department of the U.S. Army. He was employed in südatlantischem room.

Politically, Wilson was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1948 he was appointed as their candidate in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ross Rizley of the Republican Party on January 3, 1949. But since he already defeated the Republican Page Belcher at the following election, George Wilson was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1951.

After his time in Congress, Wilson was in 1951 head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the State of Oklahoma and 1952-1968 Judge in Garfield County. In 1968 he became president of a legal conference in Oklahoma. 1969 Wilson was presiding judge of the first court in the fourth judicial district.