{{short description|American politician (1855–1913)}} {{distinguish|Billy Wilder|W. Lee Wilder|William Wyler}} {{no footnotes|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = William Henry Wilder | image = WilliamWilder.jpg | caption = Wilder ({{circa}} 1905–1913) | office1 = Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br> from [[Massachusetts]] | term_start1 = March 4, 1911 | term_end1 = September 11, 1913 | constituency1 = {{ushr|MA|4|4th district}} (1911–13)<br>{{ushr|MA|3|3rd district}} (1913) | predecessor1 = [[John Joseph Mitchell]] | successor1 = [[Calvin Paige]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1855|5|14}} | birth_place = [[Belfast, Maine]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1913|9|11|1855|5|14}} | death_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S. | resting_place = Crystal Lake Cemetery<br />[[Gardner, Massachusetts]], U.S. | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = Lawyer | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''William Henry Wilder''' (May 14, 1855 &ndash; September 11, 1913) was a lawyer and [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].

==Biography== Wilder was born in [[Belfast, Maine]]. He moved to [[Gardner, Massachusetts]], in 1866. He was president of Wilder Industries. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1900, and was admitted to practice before the [[United States Supreme Court]] in 1909. He studied the monetary systems of Europe in 1909 and wrote many articles and pamphlets on monetary questions.

Wilder was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[62nd United States Congress|Sixty-second]] and [[63rd United States Congress|Sixty-third Congresses]] and served from March 4, 1911, until his death in [[Washington, D.C.]], on September 11, 1913. He is buried at Crystal Lake Cemetery in Gardner.

== See also == * [[List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)]]

==Bibliography== *''Who's who in State Politics, 1912'' Practical Politics (1912) p.&nbsp;29. * {{CongBio|W000462}} * [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nc01.ark:/13960/t7xk8kq0f;view=1up;seq=7 William H. Wilder, late a representative from Massachusetts, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1915]

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