| LC control no. | no 94032319 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wilson, James F. (James Falconer), 1828-1895 |
| Variant(s) | Wilson, Mr. (James Falconer), 1828-1895 Wilson, Jas. F. (James Falconer), 1828-1895 Wilson, James Falconer, 1828-1895 |
| Other standard no. | Q1124603 |
| Birth date | 1828-10-19 |
| Death date | 1895-04-22 |
| Place of birth | Newark (Ohio) |
| Place of death | Fairfield (Iowa) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate United States. Congress. House Iowa. General Assembly. House of Representatives Iowa. General Assembly. House of Representatives Iowa. General Assembly. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers |
| Found in | In the Senate of the United States, 1886: p. 1 (Mr. Wilson, of Iowa) Members of Cong. since 1789, 1977 (Wilson, James Falconer, R. Iowa, Oct. 19, 1828-Apr. 22, 1895; House Oct. 8, 1861-69; Senate 1883-95) MoSU-L/Nat. Am. files (usage: James F. Wilson; Jas. F. Wilson) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed January 3, 2024: (Wilson, James Falconer, a Representative and a Senator from Iowa; born in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, October 19, 1828; pursued an academic course; apprenticed to the harnessmaker's trade; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1851 and practiced in Newark, Ohio, 1851-1853; moved to Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa, in 1853 and resumed the practice of law; member of the constitutional convention of Iowa in 1857; member, State house of representatives 1857, 1859; member, State senate 1859-1861, and was its president in 1861; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel R. Curtis; reelected to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses and served from October 8, 1861, to March 3, 1869; was not a candidate for renomination in 1868; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Thirty-eighth through Fortieth Congresses); one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1868 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson; was tendered the position of Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Ulysses Grant but declined; subsequently appointed by President Grant as government director of the Union Pacific Railroad and served eight years; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator in 1872; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1882; reelected in 1888 and served from March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1895; was not a candidate for reelection in 1894; chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (Forty-eighth Congress), Committee on Expenditures of Public Money (Forty-eighth Congress), Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States (Forty-ninth through Fifty-second Congresses), Committee on Education and Labor (Fifty-second Congress); died in Fairfield, Iowa, April 22, 1895; interment in Fairfield-Evergreen Cemetery.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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