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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—West VirginiaWilliam Lyne WILSON
(1843-1900)
WILSON, William Lyne, a
Representative from West Virginia; born near Charles Town,
Jefferson County, Va. (now West Virginia), May 3, 1843; attended
Charles Town Academy; was graduated from Columbian College (now
George Washington University), Washington, D.C., in 1860 and
subsequently studied in the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville; during the Civil War served in the Confederate
Army as a private in the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry; taught for
several years in Columbian College, during which time he was
graduated from its law school; was admitted to the bar in 1869 and
commenced practice in Charles Town, W.Va.; delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1880; chosen president of the
West Virginia University at Morgantown and entered upon the office
September 4, 1882; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and to
the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1895);
chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Fifty-third Congress);
Postmaster General in the Cabinet of President Cleveland and served
from April 4, 1895, to March 5, 1897; president of the Washington
and Lee University, Lexington, Va.; died in Lexington, Rockbridge,
County, Va., October 17, 1900; interment in Edgehill Cemetery,
Charles Town, W.Va.
Bibliography
Summers, Festus P. William L. Wilson and Tariff Reform. New
Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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