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WILSON, William Lyne, congressman, born in Jefferson county, Virginia, 3 May, 1843. He was graduated at Columbian college in 1860, afterward studied in the University of Virginia, served in the Confederate army, was professor of Latin in Columbian college from 1865 till 1871, studying law at the same time, mid on being admitted to the bar in the latter year engaged in practice at Charlestown, West Virginia He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention and a presidential elector in 1880. In 1882 he became president of West Virginia university, but he resigned in order to take his seat in congress on 1 December, 1883. He was re-elected for the three following terms, and served on the ways and means committee that prepared the Mills tariff bill, taking an active part in the debates on that measure in 1888. He was a regent of the Smithsonian institution in 1883-'7, and received the degree of LL. D. from Columbian university in 1883.
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