Morton Smith Wilkinson (22 January 1819–4 February 1894) was a US Senator from Minnesota (R) from 4 March 1859 to 3 March 1865 (succeeding James Shields and preceding Daniel Sheldon Norton) and a member of the US House of Representatives (R-MN 1) from 4 March 1869 to 3 March 1871 (succeeding William Windom and preceding Mark H. Dunnell).
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Morton Smith Wilkinson was born in Skaneateles, New York in 1819, and he briefly moved to Illinois in 1837 to work on the railroad for two years; he became a lawyer back in Skaneateles in 1842 and commenced practice in Eaton Rapids, Michigan in 1843. He later moved to Stillwater, Minnesota in 1847, and he was involved with local and state politics for several years before serving in the US Senate from 1859 to 1865 and in the US House of Representatives from 1869 to 1871. He went on to serve in the State Senate from 1874 to 1877 and as a Faribault County prosecuting attorney from 1880 to 1884, and he died in 1894.