Edward Hancock Custis Wilson (August 6, 1820 – November 1, 1870) was a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1856 to 1857.
[1] Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Wilson graduated from Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania at age 18, where he was a classmate of Clement Vallandigham,[2] and then read law to be admitted to the Maryland bar.
He moved to Michigan in 1845,[1][3] where he was prosecuting attorney for Hillsdale County, and for two terms circuit judge.
[1][2][3] In November 1856, Governor Kinsley S. Bingham appointed Wilson to a seat on the Michigan Supreme Court vacated by the resignation of Warner Wing.
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