US Congressman, Lawyer, Educator, Judge. He was a United States Representative from the State of Indiana. He was born one of two children as Jeremiah Morrow Wilson to Robert Wilson (1797-1854), and his wife Martha Smith Wilson (1801-1881), in Lebanon, Ohio, on November 25, 1828. He was educated locally and then completed preparatory studies. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced his practice. He then moved to the State of Indiana and settled in Connersville, Indiana, where he continued with his practice of law shortly thereafter. He was then elected and served a term as a Judge of the Court of Common Please of Fayette County, Indiana, from 1860 to 1865. He also served as an Elected Judge of the Circuit Court from October of 1865 until 1870. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative George Washington Julian (1817-1899), on March 4, 1871. A Member of the Republican Party, he then served Indiana's 4th District (Forty-Second Congress and Forty-Third Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1875. While serving in the United States Congress, he was Chairman of the Special Committee of the House of Representatives to Investigate the District of Columbia Board of Public Works. His investigation was held over four months in 1874. During his progress on the investigation, it was seen that he had often acted more like a prosecutor than a committee chairman. The committee's findings at the end of the investigation resulted in changing the form of the District of Columbia's government from that of a territory to one under the control of three commissioners. He was not a Candidate for reelection in 1874. In total, he was elected in 1870 and reelected in 1872. Following his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Jeptha Dudley New (1830-1892), on March 4, 1875. After leaving the United States Congress, he pursued a private practice of law in Washington, D.C., where he established a practice with Samuel Shallabarger Ward (1817-1896), an American lawyer and politician who served three different stints as a Republican United States Representative from the State of Ohio until the latter's death in Washington, D.C., on August 6, 1896, at the age of 78. He was also a law partner of Adolph August Hoehling Jr. (1868-1941), who would go on and serve a term as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia from July 13, 1921, to December 31, 1927, under then-President of the United States Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923). During this time, he also taught at the prestigious Law School of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and also served a term as Dean of Georgetown University Law Center from 1896 to 1900. He was preceded as Dean of Georgetown University Law Center by Martin Ferdinand Morris (1834-1909), and succeeded by George E. Hamilton (1854-1946). During his long practice of the law, he was connected with many famous cases, gaining a reputation as a criminal lawyer. His most famous cases include serving as counsel for Henry Williamson Howgate (1835-1901), an American Army Signal Corps officer and Arctic explorer who embezzled over $133,000 from the United States Government. He ended up escaping custody while on trial and evaded the Secret Service and Pinkerton Detective Agency for 13 years, during which time he worked as a reporter and ran a New York bookstore. After the capture of Henry William Howgate (1835-1901), in New York City, New York, on September 28, 1894, he spent time in the Ludgate Street Jail. He was prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and he was found guilty of numerous crimes and ended up serving hard time in Albany Penitentiary in Albany, New York. Another successful case he prosecuted was against United States Representative William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837-1904), of the State of Kentucky for Breach of Promise for failing to honor his pledge to marry his client, Madeleine V. Pollard, a clerk who worked in the Interior Department. In 1893, Madeleine V. Pollard brought suit for breach of promise for his failure to make good on a promise of marriage. The trial took place shortly thereafter, and United States Representative William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837-1904), of the State of Kentucky lost the ensuing court battle and, failed to win reelection to the United States Congress. He had also been a lead counsel for Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley (1839-1911). During this time, he was also President of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, a Director of the National Fidelity and Deposit Company, and also of other corporations in the Washington, D.C., area. He continued with his law practice and business endeavors until his death on September 24, 1901, at the age of 72. He was also a member of several organizations and clubs during his lifetime including the Metropolitan Club and of the District of Columbia Bar. He passed away suddenly from heart failure, acute indigestion, and Bright's disease at his apartment in the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., on September 24, 1901, at the age of 72. Following his death, his funeral services were held at the Church of the Convent in Washington, D.C., with several colleagues including Judges, United States Representatives, Military Leaders, and friends and family in attendance. Following the funeral services, he was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. He was married to Mary Hall Shipley Wilson (1835-1900), in Connersville, Indiana, on November 26, 1856, and the couple had two children together, a daughter named Anna Beulah Wilson (1858-1924), and a son named Charles Shipley Wilson (1863-1908). His wife Mary predeceased him passing away in Washington, D.C., on May 10, 1900, at age of 64, and she is also buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. His son Charles also become a successful lawyer in his own right, even at one time being a law partner of his father.