| Samuel Franklin Wilson | |
| Birth Date: | 18 April 1845 |
| Birth Place: | Sumner County, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Jurist, politician |
| Party: | Democratic Party |
| Signature: | Signature of Samuel Franklin Wilson.png |
| Children: | 2 sons, 3 daughters |
| Parents: | Samuel Wilson Nancy Moore |
| Relatives: | Edgar Bright Wilson (nephew) |
| Office1: | Member of the Tennessee Senate |
| Term Start1: | 1879 |
| Term End1: | 1880 |
| Office2: | Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives |
| Constituency2: | Sumner County |
| Term Start2: | 1877 |
| Term End2: | 1879 |
Samuel Franklin Wilson (1845-1923) was an American Confederate veteran, politician and judge.
Samuel Franklin Wilson was born on April 18, 1845, in Sumner County, Tennessee.[1] [2] He was of English descent.[2] During paternal great-great-uncle, Zachary Wilson, was a signatory of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.[2] His father was Samuel Wilson and his mother, Nancy Moore.[2] He had seven siblings.[2]
During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he served under Colonel William B. Bate and General Edmund Kirby Smith in the Confederate States Army.[2] He lost an arm at the Battle of Chickamauga.[2]
After the war, Wilson graduated from the University of Georgia in 1868.[2] He received a law degree from Cumberland University.[2]
Wilson practised the law in Gallatin, Tennessee.[2]
Wilson was a member of the Democratic Party.[3] He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1877 to 1879, sitting on the judiciary committee.[2] He was elected to the Tennessee Senate in 1879, and served as the chairman of its judiciary committee.[2] He was elected by the "low taxers" to represent Tennessee at the 1880 Democratic National Convention, but he lost to Alvin Hawkins.[3]
Wilson was appointed as a United States Marshal from 1885 to 1889, under President Grover Cleveland.[3] He served as a Judge on the Tennessee Court of Chancery Appeals from 1895 to 1901.[3]
Wilson married Mary Lytton Bostick on August 19, 1880.[1] [2] They had two sons and three daughters.[2] He died in Knoxville on June 14, 1923.[4]