James Wilson
U.S. Congressperson
1779 – 1868
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Who was James Wilson?
James Wilson was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
James Wilson was born in Millerstown, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and learned the trade of cabinetmaker. He engaged in mercantile pursuits and also interested in the real estate business. He was a justice of the peace from 1811 to 1822.
Wilson was elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses. He was again a justice of the peace from 1830 to 1859. He died in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
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