George A. Wilson
| George Allison Wilson | |||
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| Former U.S. Senator from Iowa From: January 14, 1943 – January 3, 1949 | |||
| Predecessor | Clyde L. Herring | ||
| Successor | Guy Mark Gillette | ||
| Former Governor of Iowa From: January 12, 1939 – January 14, 1943 | |||
| Lieutenant | Bourke B. Hickenlooper | ||
| Predecessor | Nelson G. Kraschel | ||
| Successor | Bourke B. Hickenlooper | ||
| Former State Senator from Iowa's 30th District From: January 10, 1927 – December 20, 1936 | |||
| Predecessor | William J. Goodwin | ||
| Successor | James J. Gillespie | ||
| Information | |||
| Party | Republican | ||
| Spouse(s) | Nellie Fay (div.) Mildred Zehner | ||
| Religion | Methodist[1] | ||
George Allison Wilson (April 1, 1884 – September 8, 1953) was a Republican from Iowa who served as the state's governor and U.S. senator. He was previously a state senator from the 30th district.
Political career
Governor of Iowa
After a failed bid in the 1936 Iowa gubernatorial election where he lost by an extremely narrow margin,[2] Wilson won election to the position in 1938[3] and was re-elected in 1940.[4] In the latter race, he was unsuccessfully challenged in the primary by future congressman Harold Gross, who criticized his administration for supposedly providing insufficient bolstering to farmers.[5]
Among Wilson's first actions as governor was eliminating the State Board of Control over its neglect of the prison system. He established several commissions, including the Industrial and Defense Commission. Wilson also aided the passage of a teacher-tenure bill and reorganize the Board of Social Welfare.
Wilson was succeeded by his lieutenant Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper (1896–1971), who gained a status as a hero for once saving a woman from drowning.[6] Hickenlooper would be elected to the Senate two years afterwards in 1944.[7]
U.S. Senate
Wilson ran for and was elected to the Senate in 1942,[8] defeating the Henry Wallace-backed incumbent Democrat Clyde L. Herring. He served on the Committee on Small Business as well as the Armed Services Committee.
He was defeated for re-election by Democrat Guy Mark Gillette,[9] who previously served in the Senate for one term from the state's Class III seat before being narrowly defeated for re-election by Hickenlooper.[7]
Wilson missed 15% of all roll call votes in the Senate.[10]
References
- ↑ Wilson, G to I. The Political Graveyard. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ↑ IA Governor - Nov 03, 1936. Our Campaigns. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
- ↑ IA Governor - Nov 08, 1938. Our Campaigns. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
- ↑ IA Governor - Nov 05, 1940. Our Campaigns. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
- ↑ FascinatingPolitics (August 8, 2018). Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History H.R. Gross: Parsimonious Penny-Pincher. Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ↑ The First Hickenlooper. Fascinating Politics. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 IA US Senate - Nov 07, 1944. Our Campaigns. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
- ↑ IA US Senate - Nov 03, 1942. Our Campaigns. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
- ↑ IA US Senate - Nov 02, 1948. Our Campaigns. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
- ↑ Sen. George Wilson. GovTrack.us. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
