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John Quillin Tilson (
April 5,
1866-
August 14,
1958) was a
Republican politician in the
United States, on both state and national levels, and a lawyer.
Tilson was born in
Clearbranch, Tennessee, on
April 5 1866. He attended both public and private schools in nearby
Flag Pond and later at
Mars Hill,
North Carolina. He went to college at
Carson-Newman College, in
Jefferson City, Tennessee, where he graduated in 1888. Later he enrolled in
Yale University, where he graduated from law school in 1893. He was admitted to the bar in 1897 and started to practice in
New Haven,
Connecticut.
In 1898, when the
Spanish-American War broke out, he enlisted and served as a
second lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment, United States Volunteer Infantry.
In 1904, he was elected to the
Connecticut House of Representatives, where he served until 1908, the last two years as speaker. He was later elected to
United States House of Representatives, serving from 1909 to 1913; however, he ran unsuccessfully for reelection in 1912.
He ran again for the House of Representatives and served from
March 4,
1915, until his resignation on
December 3,
1932. He was the
Majority Leader for the
69th Congress,
70th Congress, and the
71st Congress. He became a
delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1932.
After his retirement from public life, he returned to the practice of law in
Washington D.C., and then in New Haven, Connecticut. He also served as a special lecturer at Yale University on parliamentary law and procedure and wrote
Tilson's Manual.
Tilson died in
New London, New Hampshire on
August 14 1958. He was interred in the private burial grounds on the family farm in Clearbranch, Tennessee.
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