David Wilmot

David Wilmot was a U.S. politician he was elected to the U.S. Congress, serving 18451851, and to the U.S. Senate, serving 18611863 to fill the remainder of a term. Wilmot was a Democrat, a Free Soiler, and a Republican. He was a sponsor and eponym of the Wilmot Proviso , intended to ban slavery in western lands gained from Mexico in the MexicanAmerican War of 18461848.

David Wilmot was born in Bethany, Pennsylvania, to Randall and Mary Wilmot . His father was a welltodo merchant, and Davids early life was a comfortable one. He was educated at the local Beech Woods Academy and later at the Cayuga Lake Academy in Aurora, New York. Moving to WilkesBarre in 1832, he read law under George W. Woodward and was admitted to the bar in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in August 1834.

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