John Frank Wilson

John Frank Wilson (* May 7, 1846 in Pulaski, Tennessee, † April 7, 1911 in Prescott, Arizona ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1905 he represented twice as delegate to the Arizona Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

John Frank Wilson soon came with his parents to Alabama, where he attended the public schools and the Rhuhama College. During the Civil War he fought on the side of the Confederate States. Since 1863 he was a lieutenant colonel in the army. After studying law and his 1866 was admitted to the bar he began in Fayetteville, Arkansas to work in his new profession.

Political rise

Wilson was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1877 to 1878 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Arkansas. Between 1885 and 1886 he was a prosecutor in the fourth judicial district of Arkansas. In 1877 he moved to the Arizona Territory, where he settled in Prescott and worked as a lawyer. In 1891 he was a delegate to a constitutional convention. From 1893 to 1895, Frank Wilson judge in a probate court in Yavapai County. In 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, on the William Jennings Bryan was nominated as presidential candidate of the party. That same year, Wilson was appointed General in the Arizona Territory from the Territorial Governor Benjamin Joseph Franklin for Attorney. This office he held until 1897.

Congress delegate

In the congressional elections of 1898 Wilson was elected as successor of Marcus A. Smith as delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. This mandate he held between March 4th 1899 and March 3, 1901. In 1900 he not applied for a re-election, after his predecessor Smith was re-elected to the office. But two years later, he ran again and was between 4 March 1903, the March 3, 1905 again a delegate of the Arizona Territory in Congress. As a delegate he had there, but not to vote.

After the end of his second term in the House of Representatives Wilson was working as a lawyer in Prescott again. He is also passed in 1911.