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Show mi; niLMur riiuwu. A uoniii.iii-uMii.vr from Klngaloii, Utah, aaka, "what waa the Wllmo, I'rovlao?" It una to called from Ita au. Ihor, Iiavl I Wllmit, who wa lorn In ISH, at llelhtny, l'a , and dleil In 18o8, at Towanda, In Ihu tameHtale. WlluiotauirtedMiirlln Van Ilurcii lu Ihe prteldentlal cau naa of 1 810, and Ihenby galmd for hlmailf ronaldi table publicity. Davll Wlrnot itrvral In Congrrat from Dcrembtr I, 13 H, lo March 1, Ml. During Ihe teaalouoflMl, while a bill waa pending to appropriate $-V mal.OX) for Iho ajrchare of a par, of Mexico, ho moveil mi amendment "tliat neither alavery nor luvolunlary ervltude thall ever exlatliiauy tt of Mid terrllort." Thla, which became known at the "Wllmot Trovlao," uJ (he llouie, but wat rejected ly the Henn.tr, and gave rite to the free tollmoMuieut. Wllmot went to L'ongren aa,n Democrat, Dem-ocrat, Uit altera anlabeiame a llepub llcan. lloairved at delegate at the National Itepubllcan Convention! of ISM and 181, anl eveL ncled na Urn arary chalrnun of the latter. When hlmou Cameron Ix-came Secretary Sec-retary of War In J.lncoln'a cabinet Wllmot rraa elected to Cameroii't pUcn In the United Ktatv Ueuato, whireheaerreilfrom Manli IS, Hil, to March a, 1S01. Iiilhlt latter year, I'rcildent I.locolu aptnleil Wllmot Judge of tho U. fi. Court of Clalmt, which onlcn h'e luld at the time of Ida death In IS'13. |