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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaEmmett WILSON
(1882-1918)
WILSON, Emmett, (grandson
of Augustus Emmett Maxwell), a Representative from Florida; born
during the temporary residence of his parents at Belize, British
Honduras, Central America, September 17, 1882; moved with his
parents to Chipley, Fla.; attended the public schools and Florida
State College at Tallahassee; employed as a railroad telegrapher
and later as a stenographer; was graduated from the law department
of the John B. Stetson University at De Land in 1904; was admitted
to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Marianna, Fla.;
moved to Pensacola in 1906 and continued the practice of law;
appointed assistant United States attorney for the northern
district of Florida February 1, 1907, and United States attorney
for the same district October 7, 1907, holding the position until
March 1909; State’s attorney for the first judicial circuit
of Florida 1911-1913; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and
Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1917); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1916; resumed the practice of law in
Pensacola, Fla., and died there May 29, 1918; interment in St.
John’s Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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