George L. Wilson was an American politician who served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1908 to 1910 and in the Oklahoma Senate from 1916 to 1920.
Biography George L. Wilson was born in 1853 in Jersey County, Illinois, and moved to Texas in 1876. In 1901, he moved to Oklahoma Territory. He later served as mayor of Mangum, Oklahoma.
Wilson campaign for the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 1908 seeking the Democratic Party's nomination to represent Greer County. He won the primary with 375 votes to incumbent George W. Briggs's 284 votes. He was later elected in a top-two general election alongside J. J. Savage.
In 1910, he campaigned for Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner, but lost the Democratic primary to George A. Henshaw.
Wilson later represented the 4th district of the Oklahoma Senate from 1916 to 1920. He defeated fellow Democrat C. W. Gilliland in the 1916 August primary election. He defeated Socialist candidate John G. Wills in the general election. He ran for reelection in 1920, but lost the Democratic primary to Lamar Looney.
He died on July 17, 1924, in Mangum, Oklahoma, of "heart failure."
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