John Quillin Tilson

Background

Tilson, John Quillin was born on April 5, 1866 in Clear Branch, Tennessee, United States. Son of William E. and Katharine (Sams) Tilson.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1891, Bachelor of Laws, 1893, Master of Laws, 1894.

Career

1910, New Haven, Connecticut Served Connecticut National. Guard from Private to Lieutenant Colonel, 20 years. 2 Lieutenant Company C., 6 United States Volunteer Infantry., Spanish War.

Lieutenant Colonel 2 Connecticut Infantry., in Mexican Border trouble, Elected to General Assembly. Connecticut, repr. New Haven, 1904-1908. Speaker. Connecticut House of Representative, 1907-1909.

Elected to Congress as Representative at Large from Connecticut 61, 62 Congresses, 1908. Elected to Congress, 3 Cong. District, Connecticut, 1914.

Re-elected to all succeeding Congresses. Since beginning of 69 Congress. Majority Leader, House of Representative Editor several college and law school publications at Yale.

Published as House Document 1286, 65 Congress, 2nd Session, collection of wartime speeches on subject of arms, ammunition, and other material.

Politics

Baptists should be faithful ambassadors of reconciliation in their personal relationships and local communities as they demonstrate the power of the Gospel to reconcile all persons in Christ.

Views

The life with Christ is not only to live in the atmosphere of your local church. God made his children creative, productive, and therefore able to make the whole world a better place.

Membership

Member Connecticut House of Representatives, 1905-1906, 1907-1908 (speaker 1907-1908). Member at large, from Connecticut 61st and 62d Congresses, 64th to 72nd Congress from 3d District. Served as Second lieutenant, 6th United States Volunteer Infantry, Spanish-American War, 1898.

Member Psi Upsilon, Phi Delta Phi. Mason (33°).; Clubs: Chevy Chase (Washington).

• Member of Masons; Elks. Clubs: Gradu ates’, New Haven, New Haven Republican (Washington, District of Columbia).

Connections

Married Marguerite North, November 10, 1910. Children: John Quillin, Mistress Margaret Shafer, Mistress Katharine Murray.

Father:

William E. Tilson

Mother:

Katharine (Sams) Tilson

Spouse:

Marguerite North

child:

Mistress Margaret Shafer Tilson

child:

John Quillin Tilson

child:

Mistress Katharine Murray Tilson