William Wilder

William Henry Wilder ( born May 14, 1855 in Belfast, Waldo County, Maine, † September 11, 1913 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1913 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Wilder in 1866 came with his parents to Massachusetts, where he attended the public schools. After that he worked in Gardner, trading and crafts. He became president of the company Wilder Industries Inc. After studying law and its made ​​in 1900 admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession. In 1909 he traveled to Europe to study the local currency and financial system. As a result, he wrote treatises on monetary and financial matters. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1910, Wilder was selected in the fourth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of John Joseph Mitchell on March 4, 1911. After a re-election, he could remain until his death on September 11, 1913 in the Congress. Since March 4, 1913, he represented there as the successor of John A. Thayer the third district of his state.