{{Short description|American politician (1880–1951)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Wilson D. Gillette | image = Wilson D. Gillette (Pennsylvania Congressman).jpg | caption = Frontispiece of 1952's ''Wilson Darwin Gillette, Late a Representative from Pennsylvania''. | state1 = Pennsylvania | constituency1 = {{ushr|PA|15|C}} (1941–1945)<br>{{ushr|PA|14|C}} (1945–1951) | term_start1 = November 4, 1941 | term_end1 = August 7, 1951 | preceded1 = Albert G. Rutherford | succeeded1 = Joseph L. Carrigg | office3 = Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives | term3 = 1930–1941 | birth_date = {{birth date|1880|07|01}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1951|08|07|1880|07|01}} | birth_place = Sheshequin Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_place = Towanda, Pennsylvania, U.S. | party = Republican | alma_mater = Susquehanna Collegiate Institute }} '''Wilson Darwin Gillette''' (July 1, 1880 – August 7, 1951) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania serving in the United States House of Representatives from 1941 until his death in Towanda, Pennsylvania in 1951.
==Biography== He was born on a farm near Sheshequin, Pennsylvania. He attended Susquehanna Collegiate Institute in Towanda, Pennsylvania. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits, clerked in a general store and became a dealer of automobiles in 1913. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1930 to 1941.
Gillette was elected as a Republican to the 77th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Albert G. Rutherford, and was reelected to the Seventy-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from November 4, 1941, until his death from bronchial pneumonia in Towanda, Pennsylvania.<ref>Rep. W. D. Gillette of Towanda Dies; Towanda Daily Review; Towanda, Pennsylvania; Page 1; August 8, 1951</ref>
==See also== * List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1950–1999)
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==Sources== {{CongBio|G000206}} *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carras-carrigg.html Eilson D. Gillette] at ''The Political Graveyard'' *{{cite book |date=1952 |title=Wilson Darwin Gillette, Late a Representative from Pennsylvania |url=https://archive.org/stream/memorialservices00was_ayl#page/n5/mode/2up |location=Washington, DC |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office}}
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