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| term_start2=1969​

| term_start2=1969​

| term_end2=1971​

| term_end2=1971​

| office3=[[Texas Supreme Court]] associate justice​

| office3=[[Texas Supreme Court]], Associate Justice​

| term_start3=1951​

| term_start3=1951​

| term_end3=1956​

| term_end3=1956​

| office4=[[Dallas|Dallas County]]​

| office4=[[Dallas|Dallas County]]​ District Attorney

| term_start4=1947​

| term_start4=1947​

| term_end4=1951​

| term_end4=1951​

| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]; switched to [[Republican Party|Republican]]​ (1968)

| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]]​ (1968)

| birth_date=July 29, 1912​

| birth_date=July 29, 1912​

| birth_place=[[Dallas]], [[Texas]]​

| birth_place=[[Dallas]], [[Texas]]​

| children=Two sons, including Will Wilson, Jr.​

| children=Two sons, including Will Wilson, Jr.​

| alma_mater=[[University of Oklahoma]]​

| alma_mater=[[University of Oklahoma]]​

[[Southern Methodist University]]}}

[[Southern Methodist University]] School of Law}}

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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 Mitchell|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 N. Mitchell]]. Wilson left the federal post a year before the [[Watergate]] break-in began to shatter the Nixon administration.​

==Background==

==Background==