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'''Will Reid Wilson, Sr.''' (July 29, 1912 – December 14, 2005), was a prominent [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] in his native [[Texas]] best known for his service as attorney general of [[Texas]] from 1957 to 1963. In 1968, he joined the [[Republican Party]] to support the election of [[Richard M. Nixon]] as [[U.S. President]]. Nixon thereafter named Wilson an assistant U.S. attorney general under [[John Newton Mitchell]]. Wilson left the federal post a year before the [[Watergate]] break-in began to shatter the Nixon administration.​

'''Will Reid Wilson, Sr.''' (July 29, 1912 – December 14, 2005), was a prominent [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] in his native [[Texas]] best known for his service as attorney general of [[Texas]] from 1957 to 1963. In 1968, he joined the [[Republican Party]] to support the election of [[Richard M. Nixon]] as [[U.S. President]]. Nixon thereafter named Wilson an assistant U.S. attorney general under [[John Mitchell|John Newton Mitchell]]. Wilson left the federal post a year before the [[Watergate]] break-in began to shatter the Nixon administration.​

==Background==

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