| Birth: | Oct. 19, 1829
Licking County
Ohio, USA | | Death: | Apr. 22, 1895
Fairfield
Jefferson County
Iowa, USA | 
Representative and Senator from Iowa; admitted to the bar in 1851; member constitutional convention of Iowa in 1857; member state house of representatives 1857, 1859; member state senate 1859-1861, and was its president in 1861. One of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1868 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson; was tendered the position of the Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Ulysses Grant but declined; subsequently appointed by President Grant as government director of the Union Pacific Railroad and served 8 years; elected as Republican to the US Senate in 1882 and reelected in 1888.
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Spouse:
Mary A.K. Jewett Wilson (1832 - 1916)*
*Calculated relationship
Search Amazon for James Wilson | | | Burial:
Evergreen Cemetery
Fairfield
Jefferson County
Iowa, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: Tom Denardo
Record added: Feb 21, 2002
Find A Grave Memorial# 6202451 |
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