Eugene McLanahan Wilson

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Eugene McLanahan Wilson (December 25, 1833 – April 10, 1890) (son of Edgar Campbell Wilson, grandson of Thomas Wilson of Virginia, and great-grandson of Isaac Griffin), was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia (now West Virginia), December 25, 1833; attended the common schools and Morgantown Academy; was graduated from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, PA, in 1852; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Winona, Minnesota; United States attorney for the district of Minnesota with residence in Minneapolis 1857 – 1861; continued the practice of law in Minneapolis; served in the Union Army during the Civil War as captain of Company A, First Minnesota Mounted Rangers; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1871); was not a candidate for renomination in 1870; resumed the practice of law; elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1872 and 1874; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876; member of the Minnesota Senate in 1878 and 1879; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1888; died while on a visit to regain his health in Nassau, New Providence Island, British West Indies, April 10, 1890; interment in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Preceded by Ignatius L. Donnelly

U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 2nd congressional district 1869 – 1871

Succeeded by John T. Averill