Eugene McLanahan Wilson (25 December 1833-10 April 1890) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MN 2) from 4 March 1869 to 3 March 1871 (succeeding Ignatius L. Donnelly and John T. Averill) and Mayor of Minneapolis from 9 April 1872 to 8 April 1873 (succeeding Eli B. Ames and preceding George A. Brackett) and from 14 April 1874 to 13 April 1875 (succeeding Brackett and preceding Orlando C. Merriman).
Biography[]
Eugene McLanahan Wilson was born in Morgantown, West Virginia in 1833, the son, grandson, and great-grandson of representatives Edgar Campbell Wilson, Thomas Wilson, and Isaac Griffin. He became a lawyer in 1855 and relocated to Winona, Minnesota shortly after, and he became a US Attorney in 1857. He went on to serve in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1869 to 1871 and then as Mayor of Minneapolis from 1872 to 1873 and from 1874 to 1875. He served as a delegate to the 1876 Democratic National Convention and in the State Senate from 1878 to 1879, and he died in 1890.