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Hiram V. Willson
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
In office
February 20, 1855 – November 11, 1866
Appointed byFranklin Pierce
Preceded bySeat established by 10 Stat. 604
Succeeded byCharles Taylor Sherman
Personal details
BornHiram V. Willson
April 1808 (1808-04)
Madison County, New York
DiedNovember 11, 1866(1866-11-11) (aged 58)
Cleveland, Ohio
Political partyDemocratic
EducationHamilton College
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Hiram V. Willson (April 1808 – November 11, 1866) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Education and career

Born in April 1808, in Madison County, New York, Willson graduated from Hamilton College in 1832 and read law, first in the office of Jared Willson of Canandaigua, New York, then in the office of Francis Scott Key in Washington, D.C. After moving to Painesville, Ohio in 1833, he was admitted to the bar and entered private practice with Henry B. Payne in Cleveland, Ohio from 1834 to 1855. In 1852, Willson was nominated by the Democratic Party for United States House of Representatives, but lost to his law partner Edward Wade of the Free Soil Party. In 1854, the Cleveland Bar Association sent Willson to lobby Congress to divide the state of Ohio into two Federal Judicial Districts. The effort was successful.

Federal judicial service

Willson was nominated by President Franklin Pierce on February 10, 1855, to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, to a new seat authorized by 10 Stat. 604. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 20, 1855, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on November 11, 1866, due to his death of consumption (tuberculosis) in Cleveland. Some months before his death, he was received into the First Presbyterian Church.

Notable case

Willson's most notable case was the trial of the Oberlin–Wellington Rescue conspirators in 1858.

References

  1. ^ Cleave, Egbert (1875). City of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County: taken from Cleave's Biographical Cyclopaedie of the state of Ohio. Cleveland: Fairbanks, Benedict & Co. pp. 33–35.
  2. ^ Hiram V. Willson at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

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Preceded bySeat established by 10 Stat. 604 Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
1855–1866 		Succeeded byCharles Taylor Sherman
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