1. Edgar Wilson was a United States Representative from Idaho.
18 Facts About Edgar Wilson
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Edgar Wilson was elected city attorney in 1887 and district attorney in 1888 and was a member of the state's constitutional convention prior to statehood in 1890.
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Edgar Wilson served as a Republican in the House from 1895 to 1897 and as a Silver Republican from 1899 to 1901, representing the state at-large.
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Edgar Wilson was born February 25,1861, to parents Ellen and Matthew Wilson.
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Edgar Wilson was promoted to captain while in prison, and he died a prisoner at Libby Prison in 1864.
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Edgar Wilson would have been either two or three years old when his father died.
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Edgar Wilson attended the University of Michigan and graduated with an LL.
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Edgar Wilson became Boise City attorney in 1887, and he was elected Ada County district attorney in 1888.
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In 1892 Edgar Wilson served as chairman of Idaho's Republican State Central Committee, and in 1894 the committee promoted William Borah for Congress.
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When Borah declined the nomination, Edgar Wilson replaced him, and that year Edgar Wilson was elected as Idaho's only representative in Congress.
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Edgar Wilson promoted funding for a soldiers' home in southern Idaho, and he supported an expanded version of the McKinley Tariff that would benefit Idaho's mining interests.
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Toward the end of his first term in Congress, Edgar Wilson joined the Silver Republican Party, and he unsuccessfully sought election to the Idaho Supreme Court.
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Edgar Wilson ran for Congress again in 1898 and easily won election on the Fusion Ticket.
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Edgar Wilson became a farmer in 1894, setting 50 acres of apple trees and later raising cattle.
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In 1913 Edgar Wilson shot and wounded a deputy sheriff who discovered Edgar Wilson had a gun while in custody awaiting a hearing and judgement of his mental condition.
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Edgar Wilson died January 3,1915, in his hotel room.
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Evidence of her husband's longtime struggle with alcohol and drugs was presented along with allegations of marital infidelity, and family and friends testified that Edgar Wilson had become irrational, erratic, and mentally unsound.
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In 1915 Laura Edgar Wilson donated her husband's library of 850 books to the College of Idaho.