Benjamin Franklin Wilson was an American politician from the

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. He was a member of the 1st Oklahoma Legislature and served as the second

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Early life

Born in 1855, in Texas to John Wilson Jr. and Emily Brown. He later married Jenny Horne. Prior to his election, he was an alfalfa farmer.

Political career

Wilson was among Oklahoma's first class of state legislators, serving in the 1st Oklahoma Legislature in the

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. The state legislature met from December 2, 1907, to May 26, 1908, in the Guthrie City Hall Building during the first year of the only term of Governor

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.A Century to Remember
, Oklahoma House of Representatives. (accessed July 18, 2013) He served as the second

, during the 2nd Oklahoma Legislature. At the time, he hailed from a town known as Cereal, which today is known as Banner, Oklahoma.

Later life and death

Benjamin continued to live in Oklahoma, enumerated in the 1920 census in Canadian County, and 1930 census for Oklahoma County."United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN1K-5PF : accessed 18 August 2015), Ben F Wilson, Union, Canadian, Oklahoma, United States; citing sheet 1A, family 9, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,455. Benjamin Franklin Wilson died April 25, 1934.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Benjamin Franklin 1851 births 1937 deaths People of Indian Territory Speakers of the Oklahoma House of Representatives Democratic Party members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives 20th-century American politicians