Eugene M. Wilson

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(December 25, 1833 — April 10, 1890) Wilson was a lawyer, captain in the Union Army, and politician. Eugene Wilson was born in Virginia and moved to Minnesota after studying law and graduating from Jefferson College in 1852. He practiced law and served as the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota until the Civil War. After serving as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives for the Forty-First Congress (1869-1871), Wilson returned to Minnesota where he served as a member of the State Senate from 1878 to 1879. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000578]

Member of Minnesota Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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