Wilson, John L
congressman, United States senator, was born Aug. 7, 1850, in Crawfordsville, Ind. He was elected a representative to the state legislature of Indiana in 1880 from Montgomery county.
He was appointed receiver of public moneys at Spokane and served four years, and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican, being the first member of congress elected from the state of Washington. He was unanimously renominated and re-elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses, and while serving as a member of the fifty-third congress, was elected to the United States senate to fill a vacancy, and took his seat in the senate Feb. 19, 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.