Henry Braid Wilson, Jr. (23 February 1861 – 30 January 1954) was an admiral in the United States Navy during World War I. Wilson was a native of Camden, New Jersey.

He joined the United States Navy in the latter part of the nineteenth century and continued to serve for over forty years.

Naval Academy in 1881, His assignments included duties as commanding officer of the USS North Dakota, inspector, senior inspector and president of the Board of Inspection and Survey from November 1913 until May 1916, and commanding officer of the USS Pennsylvania in 1916.

Wilson died in 1954 in New York City; at the time of his death he was the oldest living admiral of the U.S. Navy.

[2] Wilson's son-in-law was Hoover Administration Secretary of War and Major General Patrick J. Hurley.