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Joseph Harvey Wilson (Oct. 7, 181013 September 1884) was Speaker of the North Carolina Senate from 1866 to 1867, and the final presiding officer to hold the title of "Speaker". He is the grandfather of George Edward Wilson, Jr., who served as Mayor of Charlotte from 1929 to 1931.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The Wilson-Shelton House, December 4, 1985 )〕 ==Biography== Wilson was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1810 to parents Mary Erwin Wilson (daughter of Alexander Erwin, a revolutionary soldier and legislator, from Bucks County, Pennsylvania)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Erwin, Alexander by Sam J. Ervin, Jr., 1986. )〕 and Rev. John Makemie Wilson, D.D. a "distinguished Presbyterian minister and a great educator." In fact, Joseph's early education came entirely under his father tutelage until he entered Washington College in Virginia at the age of 13 in the Junior class. Two years later, he graduated with honors at the age of only 15. A few years later, he entered the practice of law in Charlotte and surrounding areas, commencing a highly successful career as a lawyer lasting about fifty years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= North Carolina Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Presentation of the Portrait of Joseph Harvey Wilson to the Supreme Court of North Carolina by Judge Francis I. Osborne. (04/21/1914) (page 756) )〕 He was married twice, first to Julia Adelaide Patton daughter of James Patton, Sr., of Buncombe County, on September 25, 1834. They had four children that lived to maturity: James, Harvey, Frank and Anna. In 1846, following Julia's death in 1845, Wilson married his second wife, Mary Louisa Phifer, daughter of George Phifer and Sarah Fulenweilder of Cabarrus County with whom he had two children, George Edward (Father of Charlotte Mayor, George E. Wilson Jr.) and Mary Ellis Wilson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, North Carolina; The Buildings 1818-1974, by Miss Elizabeth Williams. )〕 Prior to the civil war, it was said that he was "earnestly opposed to secession" from the union, and entered politics for the first time in his life, offering himself as a delegate to the convention to defeat secession. However, once the state officially seceded, he "seceded with it, and earnestly, loyally supported the cause she espoused." At the end of the Civil War, Wilson was sent to be a delegate at the Peace Convention.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= North Carolina Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Presentation of the Portrait of Joseph Harvey Wilson to the Supreme Court of North Carolina by Judge Francis I. Osborne. (04/21/1914) (p. 761) )〕 In 1866, near the height of the Post-Civil War Reconstruction Era, Wilson was asked to join and subsequently lead the North Carolina Senate. However, his term was interrupted the following year by the enactment of military rule over the American southern states. Through multiple successive acts between March and July of 1867, the U.S. Congress, split the former confederate states into five military districts, under the jurisdiction of military commanders,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Full Organization Authority Record: War Department. Second Military District. (03/11/1867 - 07/28/1868) )〕 with North Carolina placed in the Second Military District, effectively ending the existing state senate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Reconstruction in North Carolina. )〕 When the Senate was later restored, the office of "Speaker" was replaced by the office of "President pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate", while the Lieutenant Governor became the presiding officer of the Senate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The North Carolina State Constitution )〕 Wilson died in 1884 and is buried in Mecklenberg County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Joseph Harvey Wilson at Find a Grave )〕 In 1904, a memorial window was dedicated to him at the First Presbyterian Church in Charlotte.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, North Carolina; The Buildings 1818-1974, by Miss Elizabeth Williams. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Harvey Wilson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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