Wesley Powell

Wesley Powell

Infobox Governor
name = Wesley Powell


order = 79th
office = Governor of New Hampshire
term_start = 1959
term_end = 1963
lieutenant =
predecessor = Lane Dwinell
successor = John W. King
birth_date = October 13, 1915
birth_place = Portsmouth, New Hampshire
death_date = January 6, 1981
death_place =
party = Republican
spouse =
profession =
religion =

Wesley Powell (October 13, 1915–January 6, 1981) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.

Wesley was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He attended schools in Portsmouth before becoming a graduate of the University of New Hampshire.

He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II and received his law degree in Manchester at the Southern Methodist College of Law in 1940 before his two terms as Governor of New Hampshire.

Memorials

A street in Hampton Falls is named Governor Powell Drive.

External links

* [http://www.state.nh.us/nhdhr/glikeness/powewesl.html Powell at New Hampshire's Division of Historic Resources]

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