Wilson-Griffin family
Note: This is just one of 612 family
groupings listed on The
Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or
more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or
adoption.
Some families traditionally (and perhaps properly) considered
separately are joined together here if linked by marriage or
otherwise. These groupings — even the names of the
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are the result of a computer algorithm, not the choices of any
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- Isaac Griffin (1756-1827) — of Pennsylvania. Born in
Delaware, 1756.
Great-grandfather of Eugene
McLanahan Wilson; great-great-grandfather of Charles
Hudson Griffin. Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania state
legislature; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 13th District, 1813-17. Died
from the effects of a fall from a
wagon,
on his estate in Nicholson Township, Fayette
County, Pa., 1827.
Interment in private or family graveyard.
- Thomas Wilson (1765-1826) — of Virginia. Born in
Virginia, 1765.
Father of Edgar
Campbell Wilson; grandfather of Eugene
McLanahan Wilson. Member of Virginia state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1811-13. Died in 1826.
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, W.Va.
- Edgar Campbell Wilson (1800-1860) — of Virginia.
Born in Virginia, 1800.
Son of Thomas
Wilson; father of Eugene
McLanahan Wilson. U.S.
Representative from Virginia 21st District, 1833-35. Died in 1860.
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, W.Va.
- Eugene McLanahan Wilson (1833-1890) — also known as
Eugene M. Wilson — of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn. Born in Morgantown, Monongalia
County, Va. (now W.Va.), December
25, 1833. Great-grandson of Isaac
Griffin; grandson of Thomas
Wilson; son of Edgar
Campbell Wilson. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Minnesota, 1857-61; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 2nd District, 1869-71; mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1872-73, 1874-75; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Minnesota, 1876;
member of Minnesota
state senate 27th District, 1879; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1888. Died April 10,
1890. Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
- Charles Hudson Griffin (1926-1989) — of Mississippi.
Born near Utica, Hinds
County, Miss., May 9,
1926. Great-great-grandson of Isaac
Griffin. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;
U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 3rd District, 1968-73. Died in 1989.
Burial
location unknown.
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