James Wilson II (New Hampshire)

James Wilson ( born March 18, 1797 in Peterborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, † May 29, 1881 in Keene, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1847 and 1850 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Wilson was a son of the James Wilson (1766-1839), who was sitting 1809-1811 for New Hampshire in Congress. The younger Wilson attended schools in New Ipswich, Atkinson and Exeter. In 1815 he moved with his parents to Keene. Subsequently, he studied until 1820 at Middlebury College. Between 1820 and 1840 he was a member of the militia of his state, in which he brought it over the years to Major General.

After studying law and its made in 1823 Admitted to bar Wilson began practicing in his new profession in Keene. At the same time he began a political career. In the years 1825 to 1837 as well as 1840 and 1846 he was a member of the House of Representatives of New Hampshire; In 1828 he was president of this chamber. Wilson was a member of the Whig Party, whose national party he attended in 1840 as a delegate. In the years 1835 and 1838, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of each Governor of New Hampshire. Between 1841 and 1845 he was director of land surveying in the Wisconsin Territory and in the Iowa Territory.

1846 Wilson was in the third district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat James Hutchins Johnson on March 4, 1847. After a re-election in 1848, he could remain until his resignation on September 9, 1850 in Congress. In this time, the end of the Spanish - American War was. In his first term 1847-1849 Wilson was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Post Ministry.

Between 1851 and 1853, Wilson was one of the commissioners for the settlement of private land claims in California. He then settled in San Francisco. Until 1867 he remained in this city, before he returned to Keene. Between 1871 and 1872 Wilson was again a deputy in the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. After he retired from politics. He died on 29 May 1881 in Keene.

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