Wilson, James F
state senator, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 19, 1828, in Newark, Ohio. He was a member of the Iowa state constitutional convention of 1856, and was a representative in the state legislature in 1857. In 1859 he was elected state senator, serving as president of the senate in 1861. In the latter year he was elected a representative from Iowa to the thirty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy, and was reelected to the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. In 1869 he was appointed a commissioner for the Pacific railroad. He was elected a United States senator from Iowa for six years from March 4, 1883, and was re-elected in 1888, and served until 1895.