Robert M. Wilson Jr.

Robert M. "Robby" Wilson Jr. was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on April 28, 1952. His parents were Jan (née Herrick) and Robert M. "Bob" Wilson Sr. In June 1972, he moved to Washington, D.C. to work on the staff of Arkansas Senator John McClellan. While in Washington, D.C., he attended American University. In the fall of 1973, Wilson returned to the University of Arkansas and graduated with a B.A. in political science in 1975. In 1976, he was honorably discharged from the Arkansas Air National Guard. Wilson started law school at the University of Arkansas, graduating with a Juris Doctor in 1977. While in law school Wilson was a member of Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity and served two terms as treasurer of the Student Bar Association. He passed the bar for the State of Arkansas and Federal Courts in the spring of 1978. == Career ==

He began his career as a tax law attorney in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1978 with Hamilton, O'Hara and Hays; the firm was called Hamilton, Mackey, Wilson, Johnson and Wood from 1979 to 1982. In 2008, Wilson retired from the full-time daily practice of law. Wilson was admitted to the bar in the State of Arkansas; the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas in 1978, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in 1978, the Supreme Court of the United States in 1986; the Judiciary of Texas in 1991, and the Tennessee State Courts in 1996. == Wilson History & Research Center ==

In 2008, Wilson founded the Wilson History and Research Center (WHRC) in Little Rock, Arkansas. Consisting of some 17,000 items, WHRC had one of the largest collections of its kind in the world. The museum closed after Wilson died in 2012. == Awards ==

• 1987-1988 Mortgage Bankers of Arkansas President's Award of Excellence • 1993–1994 Mortgage Bankers of Arkansas President's Award of Excellence == Personal life ==

Wilson was married to Jennifer Wilson-Harvey, who was also his law partner. The gift was a part of the 65th D-Day remembrance. In March 2010 Wilson was diagnosed with terminal esophageal cancer. After treatment at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Treatment Center at the University of Arkansas Medical School in Little Rock, he was found in January 2010 to be cancer free. He was named as one of the Faces of Cancer for 2011 by the American Cancer Society. Wilson died from cancer on August 3, 2012. ==Selected publications==

• Exotische: Rare Cloth Headgear of the Third Reich, with co-author Paul Sack. Little Rock: Wilson History and Research Center, 2010. • Exotische Vol. 2: French Kepis of the Twentieth Century, with Paul Sack, Jordan Winter, and Xavier Aiolfi. Little Rock: Wilson History and Research Center, 2012. ==References==