Edward Hancock Custis Wilson (August 6, 1820 – November 1, 1870) was a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1856 to 1857.[1]

Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Wilson graduated from Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania at age 18, where he was a classmate of Clement Vallandigham,[2] and then read law to be admitted to the Maryland bar. He moved to Michigan in 1845,[1][3] where he was prosecuting attorney for Hillsdale County, and for two terms circuit judge.[1][2][3]

In November 1856, Governor Kinsley S. Bingham appointed Wilson to a seat on the Michigan Supreme Court vacated by the resignation of Warner Wing. Wilson served for "a little more than a year".[1][3] Wilson thereafter served as a circuit judge of the Michigan 1st Circuit Court from 1858 to 1863. He died in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 50.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 George I. Reed, Bench and Bar of Michigan: A History and Biography (Chicago: The Century Publishing and Engraving Co., 1897).
  2. 1 2 3 Henry A. Chaney, "The Supreme Court of Michigan", The Green Bag (1890), Vol. 2, p. 386.
  3. 1 2 3 Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society page on Edward Wilson.


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