William Fell Giles

William Fell Giles (April 8, 1807 - March 21, 1879) was a U.S. Representative from Maryland.

Born in Harford County, Maryland, Giles attended a private academy and the Bel Air Academy. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1829, and commenced practice in Baltimore, Maryland. He later served as member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1838 to 1840.

Giles was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847), but declined to be a candidate for renomination.

After his tenure in Congress, Giles served as officer of the American Colonization Society for more than thirty years, and for more than twenty years as one of the commissioners of the State of Maryland supervising the emigration of free blacks to Liberia. He also served as a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland from July 18, 1853, until his death in Baltimore, Maryland. He is interred in Greenmount Cemetery.

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state=Maryland
district=4
before=John P. Kennedy
after=Robert Milligan McLane
years=1845–1847