Nathan Wilson

Nathan Wilson ( born December 23, 1758 in Bolton, Massachusetts, † July 25, 1834 in Salem, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented in the years 1808 and 1809 New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Nathan Wilson was born during the British colonial period in Bolton in Worcester County. The Wilson family then moved to Greenwich, Hampshire County, where he attended school. During the Revolutionary War he served in the years 1777 and 1780 in Massachusetts regiments. Then he moved to New Perth (now Salem) in Washington County. He signed up as a private in the 16th Regiment of the Albany County Militia. Governor George Clinton appointed him in 1791 to aide in the Washington County Militia Regiment. He was in the years 1801 and 1802 Town Collector. Between 1802 and 1806 he served as sheriff in Washington County.

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined at that time, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. He was in a special election on June 3, 1808 in the twelfth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of David Thomas. On 3 March 1809, he resigned from the Congress.

Between 1808 and 1816 he held the post held as Justice of the Peace. He worked in agriculture. On July 25, 1834, he died at Salem and was buried there in the Evergreen Cemetery.