John Henry Wilson (Kentucky)

John Henry Wilson ( born January 30, 1846 in Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Kentucky; † 14 January 1923 in Louisville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1889 and 1893 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Wilson attended after elementary school until 1870, the Tusculum College in Greeneville (Tennessee). After a subsequent law degree in 1871 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Barboursville to work in this profession. He was also engaged in farming. He was also involved in the construction of the highway Dixie Highway. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1883 and 1887 he was a member of the Senate from Kentucky.

In the congressional elections of 1888 Wilson was in the tenth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat William P. Taulbee on March 4, 1889. Two years later, Wilson was a candidate in the eleventh district for the Congress. After his election victory he could there on March 4, 1891 Hugh F. Finley replace. Thus he completed between March 4, 1889, the March 3, 1893 two legislative sessions for two electoral districts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

After he was not confirmed in the elections of 1892, John Wilson withdrew from politics. As a result, he practiced as a lawyer again in Barboursville. He died on January 14, 1923 in Louisville, and was buried in Barboursville.