WILSON, WILLIAM L.
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born in 1843, has represented West Virginia in the U.S. Congress as a Democrat since 1883. He was a prominent member of the Ways and Means Committee that prepared the tariff bill of 1888, and, as chairman of that committee in 1893, prepared the new tariff bill of that year.
By John Franklin Jameson
