William H. Wilson

William Henry Wilson (born 6 December 1877 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † August 11, 1937 in Santa Barbara, California ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1937 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Wilson attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Pennsylvania and his 1899 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Philadelphia in this profession. Between 1900 and 1909 he was one of the legal representative of his hometown. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1913-1915 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; 1916 to 1920 he headed the Public Security Bureau in Philadelphia.

In the congressional elections of 1934, Wilson was in the second electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James M. Beck on 3 January 1935. Since he has not been confirmed in 1936, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1937. During this time other New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted. William Wilson died on August 11, 1937, just eight months after the end of its term in Congress, in Santa Barbara.