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Wilson, Robert P. C

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in Boonville, Mo. He was one of the democratic members of the house of representatives from Leavenworth county in the first general assembly of Kansas, and during that year returned to Missouri.

He was elected member from Platte county to the twenty-sixth general assembly, and made speaker of the house. a He was state senator from the third district from 1876 to 1880, and was for several years president of the Agricultural and Stock association of his county. He was elected as a democrat to fill a vacancy in the fifty-first congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-second congress.