Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko Wilmot te Kaiwhakahaere Whakawa o te Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas for the Thirteenth Judicial District from 1851 to 1861. I whai wāhi nui ia ki te whakatūnga o te Pāti Reipa i te tau 1854. Ko ia te Tiamana o te komiti kaupapa o te Pāti Reipa, he karere ki te
1856 Republican National Convention me te mahi kaha mo te kaitono perehitini Republican tuatahi, a John C. Fremont, i te pooti 1856. He kaitono Reipa kore ia mo te Kawana o Pennsylvania i te 1857, ka ngaro ki a William F. Packer.