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Ephraim King Wilson II (December 22, 1821February 24, 1891) the son of Ephraim King Wilson, was a Congressional Representative and a Senator from
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Biography

Ephraim King Wilson II was born in
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, and attended Union Academy at Snow Hill and Washington Academy in
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. He graduated from Jefferson College in 1840 and taught school for six years. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848 and began a practice in Snow Hill. He was a member of the State House of Delegates in 1847 and presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1852. Because of ill health he abandoned his law practice in 1867 and retired to his farm. In 1868 he was the examiner and treasurer of the school board of
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and was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third Congress from
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of Maryland in 1873. He declined to be a candidate for re-nomination in 1874. He was a judge of the first judicial circuit of Maryland from 1878 to 1884 and elected as a Democrat in 1884 to the
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, serving from March 4, 1885 until his death in Washington on February 24, 1891. He was the grandson of
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hero John Gunby and also the adoptive father of future
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John Walter Smith John Walter Smith (February 5, 1845April 19, 1925), was an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party in the United States, held several public offices representing the state of Maryland. From 1899 to 1900, he was a U.S. congres ...
. He is buried in the churchyard of Makemie Memorial Presbyterian Church in Snow Hill.


See also

* List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Ephraim King II 1821 births 1891 deaths Democratic Party members of the Maryland House of Delegates People from Snow Hill, Maryland Washington & Jefferson College alumni Democratic Party United States senators from Maryland Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland People from Princess Anne, Maryland 1852 United States presidential electors 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American judges