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Samuel Franklin Wilson
Samuel Franklin Wilson (1845-1923) was an American Confederate veteran, politician and judge. Early lifeSamuel Franklin Wilson was born on April 18, 1845, in Sumner County, Tennessee.[1][2] He was of English descent.[2] During paternal great-great-uncle, Zachary Wilson, was a signatory of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.[2] His father was Samuel Wilson and his mother, Nancy Moore.[2] He had seven siblings.[2] During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he served under Colonel William B. Bate and General Edmund Kirby Smith in the Confederate States Army.[2] He lost an arm at the Battle of Chickamauga.[2] After the war, Wilson graduated from the University of Georgia in 1868.[2] He received a law degree from Cumberland University.[2] CareerWilson practised the law in Gallatin, Tennessee.[2] Wilson was a member of the Democratic Party.[3] He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1877 to 1879, sitting on the judiciary committee.[2] He was elected to the Tennessee Senate in 1879, and served as the chairman of its judiciary committee.[2] He was elected by the "low taxers" to represent Tennessee at the 1880 Democratic National Convention, but he lost to Alvin Hawkins.[3] Wilson was appointed as a United States Marshal from 1885 to 1889, under President Grover Cleveland.[3] He served as a Judge on the Tennessee Court of Chancery Appeals from 1895 to 1901.[3] Personal life and deathWilson married Mary Lytton Bostick on August 19, 1880.[1][2] They had two sons and three daughters.[2] He died in Knoxville on June 14, 1923.[4] References
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