Wilson, George H., Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 8th district (1949-1951), 1905-1985
Person
Biographical:
George Howard Wilson was born in Matoon, Illinois, on August 21, 1905. He and his family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1910, where he attended public schools and graduated from high school in 1922. Following his graduation from Phillips University in Enid, he attended the University of Michigan Law School and later transferred to the University of Oklahoma Law School, where he received his L.L.B. degree in 1929. That same year, he married Myrna Kathryn Reams. The couple had four children. Wilson joined the law practice established by his father in Enid. He served as a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1934 to 1938 and as city attorney of Enid from 1939 to 1942. From 1942 to 1946 he served as a colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Department of the Army. A Democrat, he was elected to the Eighty-first Congress (1949-1951) as a representative of Oklahoma's Eighth Congressional District. Though he served only one term, Wilson was on the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. As a member of the Subcommittee on Public Health, Science, and Commerce, he and other congressmen were charged with considering legislation for a national health program. They toured western Europe to investigate such programs. Following his defeat in 1950, he resumed his law practice in Enid. In 1951, he was named director of the Division of Criminal Investigation of the State Department of Public Safety. The following year, he was appointed as a state judge and later served in various judgeships. Wilson died in Enid on July 16, 1985.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
George H. Wilson Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-057
Scope and Contents
The Wilson papers include materials from the years 1927-1983. While the bulk of the documents cover Wilson's congressional career (1949-1950), there are materials from his service in various judgeships as well. Topics and types of materials found in the Wilson papers are those which one would normally find in a congressional collection and include correspondence, press releases, legislation and reports, publications, speeches, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous. The collection is arranged...