WILSON, John Lyde, lawyer, born in Marlborough district, South Carolina, 24 May, 1784 ; died in Charleston, South Carolina, 12 February, 1849. He received a good academic education, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1807. He began to practise in Georgetown, and in 1808 he was returned to the South Carolina house of representatives from Prince George Winyaw. He was repeatedly reelected and subsequently was chosen senator. In 1822 he was made president of the senate, and during the same year elected governor and commander-in-chief. Before his election as governor he published a severe attack on the court of appeals, which is believed to have contributed materially to the abolition of that tribunal. Governor Wilson remained in office until 1824. In 1827 he was again elected to the senate. He was also a member of the Nullification convention of 1832, and advocated the most violent of the measures that were proposed then and during the session of 1833. In 1838 he published a "Code of Honor," which he affirmed was the means of saving life, but which seemed to be intended rather to regulate duels, in several of which he took part. Governor Wilson's intellectual powers were remarkable, and his speeches, political and legal, were always prepared with the greatest care. He also possessed the art of extemporaneous speaking. His voice was good and his manner graceful. He published a "Speech on the Codification of the Laws of the State" (New York, 1827), and "Cupid and Psyche" from the ' Golden Ass' of Apuleius" (Charleston, 1842).