[1] His sister Winifred Wilton Wilson was the first woman called to the Manitoba bar and one of the first two women to practice law in the province.
[5] He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1914 provincial election,[2] and finished second against Conservative John Thomas Haig in the Winnipeg-area constituency of Assiniboia[citation needed].
He ran again in the 1915 campaign, and defeated[5] Labour candidate William Bayley by fifty-five votes (Haig finished third).
The Liberals won a landslide victory in this election, and Wilton served as a backbench supporter of Tobias Norris's government for the next five years[citation needed].
[2] He appears to have left the Liberal Party just before the 1920 provincial election: campaigning for re-election as an independent, he lost to William Bayley[5] by 103 seats[citation needed].