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James Falconer Jefferson Jim Wilson (October 19 1828 – April 22 1895) was a lawyer Republican U.S. Congressman from Iowa’s 1st congressional district during the American Civil War and a two-term U.S. Senator from Iowa. He was a pioneer in the advancement of federal protection for civil rights.In the last half of the nineteenth century two unrelated Iowans named James Wilson achieved high office necessitating an early form of disambiguation. Representative and Senator James F.
