T. Webber Wilson

Wilson studied at the law department of the University of Mississippi in Oxford and graduated in 1913. During the same year he was admitted to the legal profession and practiced now in Laurel, Mississippi. 1915 to 1919 he was prosecuting attorney of Jones County. Thereafter, from 1919 to 1923 he district attorney on the 12th Judicial District of Mississippi.

Wilson was elected as a Democrat to Congress and represented there on 4 March 1923 to 3 March 1929, Mississippi House of Representatives of the United States. Instead reapply for a seat in the House of Representatives tried to let Wilson unsuccessfully to nominate as a candidate for the nomination for Senator in the U.S. Senate. After retiring from politics, he practiced from 1928 to 1933 again as a lawyer. In 1933 he was appointed federal judge for the U.S. Virgin Islands and held that post until 1935. 1935-1947 Wilson was finally a member of the Commission for release prisoners in the Department of Justice in Washington, DC. He died in 1948 in Coldwater, and was buried at the Magnolia Cemetery.

1893 Tate County, Mississippi Oxford (Mississippi) Laurel (Mississippi) Jones County (Mississippi) United States Virgin Islands Mississippi Territory Narsworthy Hunter Thomas M. Green, Jr. William Lattimore George Poindexter Christopher Rankin William Haile (Mississippi) Thomas Hinds Franklin E. Plummer David Dickson (politician) Samuel J. Gholson Thomas J. Word Jacob Thompson Benjamin D. Nabers Daniel B. Wright Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II George E. Harris Henry L. Muldrow John Mills Allen Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr. John E. Rankin Thomas Abernethy Jamie L. Whitten Travis Childers Alan Nunnelee Harry Cage John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne Seargent Smith Prentiss Albert G. Brown William H. Hammett Stephen Adams (politician) Winfield S. Featherston John Allen Wilcox William T. S. Barry Hendley S. Bennett Reuben Davis (representative) Joseph L. Morphis Albert R. Howe Guilford Wiley Wells Elza Jeffords James B. Morgan John Kyle William V. Sullivan Hubert D. Stephens Bill G. Lowrey Wall Doxey David R. Bowen Webb Franklin Bennie Thompson Robert W. Roberts Patrick W. Tompkins John D. Freeman Otho R. Singleton William Barksdale Henry W. Barry Thomas C. Catchings Pat Henry (politician) Benjamin G. Humphreys II William Y. Humphreys William Madison Whittington Frank E. Smith John Bell Williams Charles H. Griffin Chip Pickering Gregg Harper Jefferson Davis Henry T. Ellett Wiley P. Harris William A. Lake George C. McKee Jason Niles Chapman L. Anderson Joseph H. Beeman Andrew F. Fox Wilson S. Hill Thomas U. Sisson T. Jeff Busby Aaron L. Ford W. Arthur Winstead Thad Cochran Michael Parker (politician) Gene Taylor (Mississippi politician) Steven Palazzo John A. Quitman John J. McRae Charles E. Hooker Henry Smith Van Eaton T. R. Stockdale Walter M. Denny William F. Love Frank A. McLain Adam M. Byrd Samuel Andrew Witherspoon William W. Venable Ross A. Collins Aubert C. Dunn William M. Colmer Larkin I. Smith John R. Lynch James Ronald Chalmers Ethelbert Barksdale James G. Spencer Patrick Henry (U.S. Congressman) Eaton J. Bowers Paul B. Johnson, Sr. Robert S. Hall Frederick G. Barry Clarke Lewis John Sharp Williams William A. Dickson Dan R. McGehee James Collier

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