WILMOT, DAVID
\wˈɪlmɒt], \wˈɪlmɒt], \w_ˈɪ_l_m_ɒ_t]\
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(1814-1868), represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Congress as a Democrat from 1845 to 1854. He was the author of the "Wilmot proviso," providing that slavery be excluded from the territory to be purchased from Mexico in 1846. He was president judge of the Thirteenth District of Pennsylvania from 1853 to 1861. He presided over the Republican Convention of 1860, and served in the U.S. senate as a Republican from 1861 to 1863, when he became the judge of the U.S. Court of claims.
By John Franklin Jameson
