James Theodore Dudley Wilson (July 4, 1820 – November 23, 1902) was a soldier, merchant, banker, and mayor of Houston.
Margaret died in 1823, after which he lived with a variety of relatives and friends in Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, and Mississippi.
[1] In 1874 Texas Governor Richard Coke appointed Wilson to replace Reconstruction mayor Thomas Howe Scanlan.
Facing high-levels of municipal debt and declining tax revenue, the fiscal crisis was so desperate that Wilson even paid into the bond fund from his personal account.
The rate of municipal revenue could only meet about half of its obligations for its bond interest.