[1][2] Born in Greeneville, Tennessee, Wyly graduated from Jefferson College.

He was elected a District Judge in 1868, but "resigned shortly thereafter to become Supreme Court Justice".

[3] Wyly "owned one of the largest Cotton Plantations in Louisiana", and ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 1877.

[1] Wyly died on the S.S. St. Louis en route from Liverpool to New York City.

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