William Fell Giles

William Fell Giles ( born April 8, 1807, at Harford County, Maryland, † March 21, 1879 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1845 and 1847 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives; later he became a federal judge.

Career

William Giles first attended a private school and then the Bel Air Academy. After a subsequent law studies and his 1829 was admitted to a lawyer, he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1838 to 1840 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. In the congressional elections of 1844 Giles was in the fourth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John P. Kennedy on March 4, 1845. Since he resigned in 1846 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1847. This was marked by the events of the Mexican-American War.

Since 1853 William Giles judge was at the Federal District Court for the District of Maryland. More than 30 years he was a member of the board of the American Colonization Society. He was also one of the State Commissioner of Maryland to monitor the emigration of free African Americans to Liberia. William Giles died on March 21, 1879 in Baltimore, where he was also buried.