William Wilson (Ohio politician)

William Wilson (Ohio politician)

William Wilson (March 19, 1773June 6, 1827) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born in New Boston, New Hampshire, Wilson attended the public schools and was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1797.He studied law in Johnstown, New York, and was admitted to the bar.He moved to Ohio and settled in Chillicothe about 1805.He engaged in the practice of law.He moved to Newark, Ohio, in 1808, having been appointed chief judge of the court of common pleas, and served until 1823.

Wilson was elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1823, until his death in Newark, Ohio, June 6, 1827.He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Nineteenth Congress).He was interred in the Old Cemetery.He was reinterred on March 23, 1853, in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

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