Joseph G. Wilson

Joseph Gardner Wilson ( born December 13, 1826 in Acworth, New Hampshire, † July 2, 1873 in Marietta, Ohio) was an American lawyer and politician. In 1873, he represented the state of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Wilson moved in 1828 with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio. Later they settled in Hamilton County. There, Joseph attended the public schools until 1840. Between 1840 and 1842 he was on the Cary's Academy until 1846 and at Marietta College. After a final studying law at the Cincinnati Law School and was admitted as an attorney of his 1852 he moved over the Oregon Trail to what was then Oregon Territory, where he worked as a lawyer in Salem.

In 1853 he was Protokollist in the territorial House of Representatives. Between 1860 and 1862 he was district attorney in Marion County and 1864-1866 and 1868-1870 he was a judge at the State of Oregon Supreme Court. He then practiced as a lawyer again.

Wilson was a member of the Republican Party. In 1870, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives. In the next congressional elections in 1872 he was elected as a deputy in the Congress. His local office began on March 4, 1873 but Joseph Wilson was unable to exercise his mandate. He died before the first meeting of the new Congress on the way to Washington on July 2, 1873.

Since 1854 Joseph Wilson was married to his wife Elizabeth. The couple had four children together. Its seat in the House of Representatives fell after his death to his cousin James Nesmith.