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| alma_mater=Moss Point High School<br>
| alma_mater=Moss Point High School<br>
University of Mississippi<br>
University of Mississippi<br>
[[Yale Law School]]
[[Yale]] Law School
| occupation=[[Lawyer]]
| occupation=[[Lawyer]]
| religion=[[Presbyterian]]
| religion=[[Presbyterian]]
|title=Cory Wilson|publisher=Billstatus.ls.state.ms.us|accessdate=October 12, 2017}}</ref>
|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>
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 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>