Robert Wilson (Missouri)

Robert Wilson (* November 1803 in Staunton, Virginia, † May 10 1870 in Marshall, Missouri) was an American politician who represented the state of Missouri in the U.S. Senate.

Born in Virginia Robert Wilson retired in 1820 in Howard County, Missouri Territory, where he worked as a teacher. From 1825 he served as restructuring judge in this district; 1829-1840 he held the post of judicial officers ( Clerk ) to the local county and district courts. In addition, he was appointed in 1837 to brigadier general of state militia and took the following year at the so-called Mormon War in part. Moreover, he studied law, was admitted to the Bar Association and began to practice as a lawyer.

After moving to Huntsville Wilson also suggested a political career and sat in 1844 as a deputy in the House of Representatives from Missouri. In 1854 he was in the state Senate; shortly before he settled in Andrew County. After the outbreak of the civil war in 1861 Wilson took part in the Constitutional Convention of Missouri, should be at the vote on the withdrawal from the Union. He presided over the meeting from time to time as president before and voted as Unionist against joining the Confederacy.

As the one with the "rebels" sympathizing U.S. Senator Waldo P. Johnson was expelled from the Congress, Robert Wilson took over as the appointed successor whose mandate. He belonged to the Senate as a Unionist of 17 January 1862 to 13 November 1863 and then vacated his seat for the victorious in the by-election as Gratz Brown. Wilson retired after from politics and became a farmer. He died in May 1870 in Marshall and was buried at Mount Mora Cemetery in St. Joseph.