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Wilson, Ephraim King

lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 22, 1821, in Snow Hill, Md. He was a representative in the Maryland legislature in 1847, and was a presidential elector in 1852. He was elected a representative from Maryland to the forty-second congress; was judge of the first judicial circuit of Maryland from 1878 to 1884, and in 1884 was elected a United States senator from Maryland for the term ending March 3, 1891. He died Feb. 24, 1891, in Washington, D. C.