Edgar Bright Wilson (1874–1953) was an American lawyer and politician.
[1] His father, James A. Wilson, was a veteran of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
[1] His paternal uncle, Samuel Franklin Wilson, was a Confederate veteran and a judge.
In 1929 he was barred from practicing in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by Judge Thomas D. Thacher, who found that Wilson had gifted a car that was the property of a company he was the receiver of to the stepson of Francis A. Winslow, who was under investigation following allegations of impropriety in the selection of court-appointed receivers.
[2] Wilson resigned from the New York State Bar on December 30, 1929.