US Congressman. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Andrew Henderson Wilson and Jennie Graham Speirs Wilson one of six children (he also had four sisters and one brother), and later moved with his family to Harmony, Pennsylvania, while still a baby in 1867. He was educated at and attended local common and public schools before entering and graduating from Harmony Collegiate Institute in Harmony, Pennsylvania, Zelienople Academy in Zelienople, Pennsylvania, and finally Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. After his education, he taught school and was a school principal beginning in 1886, and studied law and was admitted to the bar in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 1893. He joined the Pennsylvania National Guard and served with them for three years and participated in the Homestead Riots (was an industrial lockout and strike which began on culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents) from July 1, 1892, to November 20, 1892, in Homestead, Pennsylvania. He then continued to teach and commenced to practicing law in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 1896. On October 26, 1899, he married Catherine Elizabeth Levis and the couple had two children (John Levis was born in 1904, and Robert Stewart was born in 1912). He then decided to enter public service and he served as Solicitor for the City of Butler, Pennsylvania, from 1906 to 1934, but not while he was in the United States Congress. He also served as a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1916, 1932, 1936, and again in 1940. He was also an Alternate Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1944. He then decided to run for a seat in The United States Congress and was elected to the Sixty-Sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative-elect Edward Everett Robbins. A Democrat, he then served Pennsylvania's 22nd District (Sixty-Sixth Congress) in the United States House of Representatives from 1919 to 1921. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-Seventh Congress in 1920. After his term in the United States Congress expired o March 3, 1921, he was succeeded by United States Representative Adam Martin Wyant. After his time in public service had ended he resumed his practice of law and went on to serve as a County Judge in several different courts in Pennsylvania from 1933 to 1943. He continued in that position until his death at his home in Butler, Pennsylvania, on January 28, 1946, at the age of 78, after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage about a month earlier.