Will Reid Wilson, Sr. (July 29, 1912 – December 14, 2005), was a prominent Democratic politician in his native Texas best known for his service as attorney general of Texas from 1957-1963. In 1968, he joined the Republican Party to support the election of Richard M. Nixon as U.S. President. Nixon thereafter named Wilson an assistant U.S. attorney general under John Newton Mitchell. Wilson left the federal post a year before the Watergate burglary began to shatter the Nixon administration.Wilson was born to Will R. and Kate Wilson in Dallas, where he graduated from Highland Park High School. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Geology at the University of Oklahoma at Norman. Then he entered the Dedham Law School of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he was named a "Distinguished Graduate". He joined the law firm of Turner, Rogers, and Wynn and served as aide to Dallas Mayor Woodall Rogers, who served in the nonpartisan position from 1939 to 1947. Wilson left Dallas to become an assistant Texas attorney general in the state capital in Austin. Wikipedia
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