Biography

1772 - 10/04/1824

WILSON, Thomas, a Representative from Crawford, Erie, Mercer, Venango and Warren Counties; born, 1772 in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa.; shipwright; military fort supplier, federal contract (1790s-1805); elected, burgess, Erie (1807); unsuccessful campaign, coroner, Erie County (1808); appointed, treasurer, Erie County  (1809); appointed, justice of the peace (1809); elected, commissioner, Erie County (1811-1814); appointed, surveyor, Erie County (1812-1815); elected, United States Congress (1813-1817); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1817-1818 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to Congress (1818); appointed, prothonotary, register and recorder, Erie County (1819-1824); died, October 4, 1824 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania; interred, Erie Cemetery, Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania.