Eugene McLanahan Wilson

Eugene McLanahan Wilson was a lawyer and Democrat politician who served in various legal and political offices in Minnesota including as an US Representative and as the fifth and seventh mayor of Minneapolis.

Wilson was born in Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia on December 25, 1833. His father Edgar Campbell Wilson had been a lawyer and US representative from Virginia . On his mothers side he was the greatgrandson of Isaac Griffin, also a longtime US Representative from Pennsylvania. He attended school in Morgantown and graduated from Jefferson College in 1852. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1855 and relocated to Minnesota shortly thereafter.

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