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Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 281.
WILSON, HON. JOSEPH G., deceased, representative in congress from Oregon, was born at Acworth, N. H., December 13, 1826, and graduated from Marietta College, Ohio, in 1846. For several years he taught school and studied law, and then began practice in Oregon in 1852, at Salem. The same year he was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court and held he position three years. In 1860 he was appointed District Attorney of he third district. In 1862 he was appointed Judge of the fifth district by Governor Gibbs, and in 1864 was elected to that position. In 1865 Marietta College conferred the degree of LL.D. upon him. In 1870 hw was the Republican nominee for congress and made the canvass against Hon. J. H. Slater when the state was hopelessly Democratic, losing by 343 votes. In 1872 he was renominated against Hon. John Burnett, and was elected by a majority of 850, leading his ticket largely. July 2, 1873, while at Marietta for the purpose of delivering an address before the alumni of the college, he died suddenly of paralysis, and the undelivered address was printed by the alumni as a memorial.
-Tony Larson
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