Ephraim King Wilson (September 15, 1771 – January 2, 1834) was a

Congressional Representative A member of congress (MOC), also known as a congressman or congresswoman, is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature. The t ...

for the

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. Wilson was born near

Snow Hill, Maryland Snow Hill is a town in and the county seat of Worcester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,156 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Snow Hill was founded ...

, on September 15, 1771. Graduated from Princeton College in 1790, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1792. He opened a practice in Snow Hill and was elected from the eighth district of Maryland to the Twentieth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the

Twenty-first Congress The 21st United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1829 ...

. He resumed his law practice in Snow Hill after a failed nomination to the Twenty-second Congress and continued his practice until his death in Snow Hill on January 2, 1834. He is buried in the churchyard of Makemie Memorial Presbyterian Church. He was also the father of

Ephraim King Wilson II Ephraim King Wilson II (December 22, 1821February 24, 1891) the son of Ephraim King Wilson, was a Congressional Representative and a Senator from Maryland. Biography Ephraim King Wilson II was born in Snow Hill, Maryland, and attended Union Ac ...

and William Sydney Wilson. His daughter was the second wife of Maryland Court of Appeals judge

Ara Spence Ara Spence (February 26, 1793 – May 27, 1866)Leslie P. Dryden, ''Dryden Family & Descendants'' (1999), p. 52.''Maryland: A Guide to the Old Line State'' (1976), p. 445. was a justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals from 1835 to 1851. Born in W ...

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