|
Affiliation | Democratic |
|
Name | Will Wilson |
Address | Dallas, Texas , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
Born |
July 29, 1912
|
Died | December 14, 2005
(93 years)
|
Contributor | Thomas Walker |
Last Modifed | RBH Jul 09, 2007 10:57pm |
Tags |
|
Info | Will Reid Wilson was born July 29, 1912 in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from Highland Park High School and earned an undergraduate degree in geology at the University of Oklahoma before attending Southern Methodist University Law School, where he graduated first in his class.
Following graduation, Wilson joined the Dallas firm of Turner, Rogers, and Wynn and served as an aide to Dallas mayor Woodall Rogers, who served from 1939 to 1947. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, earning the rank of major. Stationed in New Guinea and the Philippines, Wilson commanded a field artillery battalion and received a bronze star for heroism.
After the war Wilson returned to Dallas and was elected district attorney of Dallas County, serving two terms from 1946 to 1950. He was elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1950 and took office in 1951. He served as an associate justice until June 1956, when he resigned to run for the office of state attorney general.
Wilson won the election and served as Texas attorney general from 1957 to 1963. He received the Wymann Memorial Award for outstanding American attorney general from the National Association of Attorneys General in 1959. He later ran unsuccessful races for the U.S. Senate and the Texas governorship before co-founding the Austin law firm of Wilson, Kendall, Koch, and Randall. He served as assistant U.S. attorney general during the Nixon administration from 1969 to 1971, where he headed the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He left shortly before the Watergate break-in and later wrote a book, titled A Fool for a Client, about his views on the demise of Nixon's presidency.
In addition to his law practice and civil service, Wilson ran two cattle ranches in Milam and Williamson counties. He was married and had two children; his wife died in 1984. Wilson died December 14, 2005, at the age of ninety-three. He was buried in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, next to his wife of thirty-six years.
[Link] |
| BOOKS |
|
|
Title |
Purchase |
Contributor |
|
Start Date |
End Date |
Type |
Title |
Contributor |
|
Date |
Category |
Headline |
Article |
Contributor |
|
| INFORMATION LINKS |
|
|
|