Joseph Franklin Wilson

Joseph Franklin Wilson ( born March 18, 1901 in Corsicana, Texas, † October 13, 1968 in Dallas, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1947 and 1955 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Wilson attended the public schools of his home. In 1913 he came to Memphis, where he continued his schooling until 1916. During the First World War he was 1917-1919 at various military schools. After a subsequent law degree from Baylor University in Waco and his 1923 was admitted as a lawyer in Dallas, he began to work in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In June 1936 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, was nominated to the President Franklin D. Roosevelt for re-election. From 1942 to 1945 he was regional chairman of the party of the Democrats in Dallas County. Between 1943 and 1944 he served as District Judge.

In the congressional elections of 1946, Wilson was in the fifth electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Hatton W. Sumners on 3 January 1947. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1955 four legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement. In 1954, Wilson gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was 1955-1968 Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of Dallas. In this capacity he was involved in the November 22, 1963 at the swearing in of the new President Lyndon B. Johnson, upon whom this office after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Joseph Wilson died on October 13, 1968 in Dallas, where he was also buried.