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Short biography

Matt Wilson is a Tupelo attorney and a candidate for the 2027 Republican nomination for Mississippi Secretary of State. A graduate of Mississippi State University in industrial engineering and Regent University School of Law, he has practiced law for approximately 20 years in Mississippi and Tennessee.

Wilson served as lead counsel in a Hinds County election contest in which the trial court ordered a new election after finding failures in election safeguards. In March 2024, he filed a merits-stage amicus brief supporting President Donald Trump at the U.S. Supreme Court.

He is a registered patent attorney before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Wilson and his wife, Amy, have two grown children.

Extended biography

Matt Wilson is a Tupelo attorney and candidate for the 2027 Republican nomination for Mississippi Secretary of State. His campaign centers on election records that can be verified, dependable public filings, and the principle that the same rules should apply to everyone.

Wilson grew up in north Mississippi in a family of educators. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Mississippi State University while working at a Frito-Lay plant in Jackson. Before entering the law, he inspected natural gas lines, sold life insurance, obtained a securities license, and spent three years as a computer analyst for a Christian ministry. He later earned his law degree from Regent University and returned to Mississippi.

For approximately twenty years, Wilson has practiced law in Mississippi and Tennessee. He is also one of 22 registered patent attorneys with a Mississippi address on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office roster, as of October 11, 2026. He served as lead counsel in a Hinds County election contest in which the trial court ordered a new election after finding serious failures in election safeguards. In March 2024, acting independently and without compensation, Wilson filed the first merits-stage amicus brief supporting President Trump in Trump v. United States.

Wilson’s father was a school principal, and his mother worked in education. He credits his father’s insistence that the rules apply equally to everyone with shaping his understanding of public responsibility.

He is the author of The Godly Path of Least Resistance, published in 2007 with a foreword by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. He and his wife, Amy, have been married since 1997 and have two grown children.