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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Cory Todd Wilson
| office=Mississippi State Representative<br> for District 73 (Madison County) 
| term_start=January 2016
| term_end=
| preceded= 
| succeeded=Brad Oberhousen
| birth_date=August 8, 1970
| birth_place=Pascagoula<br>
Jackson County<br>
[[Mississippi]]
| citizenship=[[United States|American]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| spouse=Stephanie Webb Wilson
| children=One child 
| alma_mater=Moss Point High School<br>
University of Mississippi<br>
[[Yale Law School]]
| occupation=[[Lawyer]]
| religion=[[Presbyterian]]
| residence=Ashbrooke<br>Madison County<br>Mississippi
}}
'''Cory Wilson''' (born August 8, 1970) is a [[lawyer]] from Madison, [[Mississippi]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 73 in [[suburb]]an Madison County near the capital city of [[Jackson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/house/wilson.xml
|title=Cory Wilson|publisher=Billstatus.ls.state.ms.us|accessdate=October 12, 2017}}</ref>

Born and reared in Pascogoula in Jackson County on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Wilson graduated from Moss Point High School in Moss Point in Jackson County, the [[University of Mississippi]] at Oxford, and in 1995 [[Yale Law School]] in New Haven, [[Connecticut]]. Wilson is of counsel at the law firm Heidelberg, Steinberger, Colmer & Burrow. He is a former director of the Chamber of Commerce. He and his wife, the former Stephanie Webb, have one child. Wilson is affiliated with Highlands [[Presbyterian]] Church in Madison.<ref name=pvs>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/69963/cory-wilson#.Wd_um7pFzb0|title=Cory Wilson's Biography|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=October 12, 2017}}</ref>

Wilson ran unopposed in the [[general election]] held on November 3, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.ms.gov/Elections-Voting/Pages/2015-General-Election.aspx|title=General election returns|date=November 3, 2015|publisher=Mississippi Secretary of State|accessdate=October 12, 2017}}</ref>  to succeed the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Brad Oberhousen, who did not seek reelection. Oberhousen had won his seat by seventy-three votes over the then Republican incumbent, James Ellington.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.ms.gov/links/elections/results/statewide/MS%20House%20of%20Rep%20SINGLE%20COUNTY%20-%20General%20Election%202011%20Results.pdf|title=Election Returns|date=November 8, 2011|publisher=Mississippi Secretary of State|accessdate=October 12, 2017}}</ref>

Wilson serves on these House committees: (1) Judiciary A (vice chairman), (2) Accountability, Efficiency, and Transparency, (3) Apportionment and Elections, (4) Conservation and Water Resources, (5) Education, (6) Energy, and (7) Ethics.<ref name=pvs/> 
In 2016, Representative Wilson voted against dismemberment abortions and backed the measure to expand exemptions for compulsory school vaccinations. He voted to grant civil and criminal immunity to those reporting what they believe are instances of [[terrorism]]. He supported legislation to permit churches to have designated personnel with firearms for the overall protection of the congregation. He voted to guarantee protections for religious beliefs and matters of moral conscience. In 2017, he supported the legislation which authorizes additional methods of execution in Mississippi and the measure to classify the killing of first responders as first-degree [[murder]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/69963/cory-wilson#.Wd_raLpFzb0|title=Cory Wilson's  Voting Record|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=October 12, 2017}}</ref>

==See also==

Other Mississippi Republican state House members:
*[[William Tracy Arnold]]
*[[Dana Criswell]]
*[[Steve Hopkins]]
*[[Trey Lamar]]
*[[Shane Aguirre]]
*[[Jeff Hale]]
*[[Dan Eubanks]]
*[[Robert Foster]]
*[[Ashley Henley]]
*[[Rob Roberson]]
*[[Karl Oliver]]
*[[Bill Kinkade]]
*[[Vince Mangold]]
*[[Brent Powell]]

==References==
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