Guilford Wiley Wells

Guilford Wiley Wells ( born February 14, 1840 in Conesus, Livingston County, New York, † March 21, 1909 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1877 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Guilford Wells visited the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and College in Lima, New York. During the Civil War he rose to become Lieutenant Colonel in the Union army from the simple soldiers. After the war, Wells studied at Columbian College, which later became George Washington University, Jura. After his made ​​in 1867 admitted to the bar he began in Holly Springs to work in his new profession.

Between 1870 and 1875 he was a federal prosecutor for the northern part of the State of Mississippi. Politically Wells was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1875 he was in the second electoral district of Mississippi as an independent Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he took over from the March 4, 1875 Albert R. Howe. Since he resigned in 1876 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1877.

After his time in Congress Guilford Wells was 1877-1879 American consul in Shanghai. After his return to the United States, he settled in Los Angeles, where he practiced as a lawyer. Wells died in 1909 in Santa Monica and was buried in Los Angeles.