William David Willson | |
Birth Date: | 27 April 1865 |
Birth Place: | Milton, Canada West |
Death Place: | Rossland, British Columbia |
Office: | MLA for Rossland |
Term: | 1916 - 1920 |
Party: | British Columbia Liberal Party |
Spouse: | Sophia Catherine Peterson |
William David Willson (April 27, 1865 - March 4, 1932) was a political figure in British Columbia. He represented Rossland from 1916 until his retirement at the 1920 provincial election in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Liberal.
He was the son of David William Willson and the former Sarah Ann Flett, having been born in 1865 in Milton, Canada West.[1] Willson was mayor of Rossland from 1914 to 1916.[2] He ran unsuccessfully for the Rossland City seat in the provincial assembly in a 1916 by-election held after Lorne Argyle Campbell was named to cabinet. Willson defeated Campbell in the general election held later that year.[3] He died at Rossland in 1932.[4]