The Gentleman From Iowa: George A. Wilson

By Ray Hill George A. Wilson served as both governor of Iowa and U.S. senator from the Hawkeye State. Wilson embodied the sturdy Midwestern stock from which he came. George Allison Wilson was described by TIME magazine as “a rugged six-footer who likes to fish and work in his garden.” The most widely-read news magazine in the world in its day, TIME added Wilson was “an honest but unspectacular politico who has been in one ring or another almost ever since he got out of law school.”

George A. Wilson was a solid, kindly man who was a sort of “everyman” sort of fellow. The Des Moines Register recalled George Wilson as a man who had “a deep, sincere and consuming interest in people that kept him in public life for half a century…” Wilson’s “keen inte

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