Uriah Wilson | |
Smallimage: | Uriah Wilson.jpg |
Constituency Mp1: | Lennox |
Parliament1: | Canadian |
Predecessor1: | Matthew William Pruyn |
Successor1: | David Wright Allison |
Term Start1: | 1887 |
Term End1: | 1891 |
Predecessor2: | David Wright Allison |
Successor2: | District was abolished in 1903 |
Term Start2: | 1892 |
Term End2: | 1904 |
Constituency Mp3: | Lennox and Addington |
Parliament3: | Canadian |
Predecessor3: | District was created in 1903 |
Successor3: | William James Paul |
Term Start3: | 1904 |
Term End3: | 1911 |
Birth Date: | 17 March 1841 |
Birth Place: | North Fredericksburg Township, Canada West |
Death Place: | Napanee, Ontario, Canada |
Party: | Conservative |
Uriah Wilson (March 17, 1841 - February 2, 1918) was a Canadian politician.
Born in the Township of North Fredericksburg, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, his father James Wilson[1] was a native of England and his mother came from County Tyrone, Ireland. Wilson was educated at the public school in Napanee, Ontario. He married Mary Moyle in 1867.[2] A merchant, he represented Centre Ward in the Town Council in 1875, 1876 and 1878, and was Deputy Reeve of Napanee from 1879 to 1882. He was warden of the County of Lennox and Addington in 1882 and reeve of Napanee in 1884 and 1885, and Mayor in 1886.[1]
He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for Lennox at the general elections of 1887. A Conservative, he was defeated at the general elections of 1891, but was returned at a by-election held in 1892 after the election was declared void. He was re-elected in 1896, 1900, 1904, and 1908. He did not run in 1911.