William Henry Wilder (May 14, 1855 – September 11, 1913) was a lawyer and
U.S. Representative
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from
Massachusetts
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Biography
Wilder was born in
Belfast, Maine
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. He moved to
Gardner, Massachusetts
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, in 1866. He was president of Wilder Industries. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1900, and was admitted to practice before the
United States Supreme Court
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in 1909. He studied the monetary systems of Europe in 1909 and wrote many articles and pamphlets on monetary questions.
Wilder was elected as a
Republican
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Political ideology
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to the
Sixty-second and
Sixty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, until his death in
Washington, D.C.
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, on September 11, 1913. He is buried at
Crystal Lake Cemetery in Gardner.
See also
*
List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
References
Bibliography
*''Who's who in State Politics, 1912'' Practical Politics (1912) p. 29.
*
William H. Wilder, late a representative from Massachusetts, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1915
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People from Gardner, Massachusetts
1855 births
1913 deaths
People from Belfast, Maine
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
19th-century American politicians