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Wilkinson was affiliated with the state, national, and international bar associations. In 1962, he was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers. He was a senior partner in the firm, Wilkinson, Carmody and Gilliam. He was a director and chairman of the board of Lee National Life Insurance Company and the vice president of the Hunter Company. In the late 1950s, he allied with the [[states rights]] movement and took a leading role in the court battles regarding tidelands, [[petroleum]] revenues, and opposition to [[Segregation|school segregation]].<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site40.php|title=Wilkinson, W. Scott|publisher=lahistory.org|accessdate=January 6, 2020}}</ref>
Wilkinson was affiliated with the state, national, and international bar associations. In 1962, he was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers. He was a senior partner in the firm, Wilkinson, Carmody and Gilliam. He was a director and chairman of the board of Lee National Life Insurance Company and the vice president of the Hunter Company. In the late 1950s, he allied with the [[states rights]] movement and took a leading role in the court battles regarding tidelands, [[petroleum]] revenues, and opposition to [[Segregation|school segregation]].<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site40.php|title=Wilkinson, W. Scott|publisher=lahistory.org|accessdate=January 6, 2020}}</ref>
==Personal life==
==Personal life==
On April 9, 1919, Wilkinson married the former Margaret West (1898–1995), the daughter of Charles Stuart West and the former Susan Hardy, then of Corsicana in Navarro County, south of [[Dallas]], [[Texas]]. She attended St. Mary's College in Dallas, Hollins College in Roanoke, [[Virginia]], and received a Bachelor of Arts years later in 1937 from Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport. Margaret Wilkinson was a director of the Shreveport YWCA and the Shreveport Opera]and the president of the Twentieth Century Club and the Louisiana Federation of Women's Clubs for the Fourth District.<ref name=aboutwilkinson/>
On April 9, 1919, Wilkinson married the former Margaret West (1898–1995), the daughter of Charles Stuart West and the former Susan Hardy, then of Corsicana in Navarro County, south of [[Dallas]], [[Texas]]. She attended St. Mary's College in Dallas, Hollins College in Roanoke, [[Virginia]], and received a Bachelor of Arts years later in 1937 from Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport. Margaret Wilkinson was a director of the Shreveport YWCA and the Shreveport Opera]and the president of the Twentieth Century Club and the Louisiana Federation of Women's Clubs for the Fourth District.<ref name=aboutwilkinson/>
The Wilkinsons had two daughters, [[Susybelle Lyons|Susybelle Wilkinson Lyons]] and Margaret Wilkinson Wilson, formerly Margaret Butler.<ref name=lahist/> Wilkinson died at the age of ninety in 1985 in Shreveport.
The Wilkinsons had two daughters, [[Susybelle Lyons|Susybelle Wilkinson Lyons]], the daughter-in-law of Shreveport oilman [[Charlton Lyons]], and Margaret Wilkinson Wilson, formerly Margaret Butler.<ref name=lahist/> Wilkinson died in Shreveport at the age of ninety in 1985.
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