Education
Born in Roxbury, New York, Wilson attended the public schools and the Poughkeepsie Military Academy. He was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1882.
United States representative politician
Born in Roxbury, New York, Wilson attended the public schools and the Poughkeepsie Military Academy. He was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1882.
Practiced medicine in Pleasant Valley, New York, until April 1888. He moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1888 and continued the practice of medicine. Wilson was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1905).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress.
He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1900. Wilson was elected to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1915).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914. He resumed the practice of medicine in Brooklyn, New York, until his death there July 12, 1935.
His remains were cremated and the ashes deposited in Roxbury Cemetery, Roxbury, New New York
1954: Obelisk Gallery, London 1956: Gallery Helios Art, Brussels 1957: British Council touring exhibition 1957: Metavisual, Tachist, Abstract, Redfern Gallery, London 1957: Galerie Craven, Paris 1958: New Trends in British Painting, Rome 1958: Survey of Contemporary British Painting, Howard Wise Gallery, New York 1959: John Moores Prize Exhibition, Liverpool 1959: Six Young Painters, Arts Council touring exhibition 1960: Art Alive, Northampton Museum and Art Gallery 1961: Avray Wilson, Redfern Gallery 1961: Commonwealth Vision, Commonwealth Institute 1986: Frank Avray Wilson, Warwick Arts Trust 1995: Frank Avray Wilson, Redfern Gallery, London 2010: Frank Avray Wilson - the Vital Years, Paisnel Gallery, London.
He won a Logie Award for Best Compere in 1972 for New Faces. His last role, in the short film The Chess Set (by Alexander Murawski) won the Best Actor award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Wilson heard this news the day before he died.
Senior physician, a director, and member of the board of governors of the Bushwick Hospital and visiting physician to the Swedish Hospital, both of Brooklyn.
