William Wellington Corlett

William Wellington Corlett (April 10, 1842 - July 22, 1890) was a Delegate from the Territory of Wyoming.

Born in Concord, Ohio, Corlett attended the district schools, and was graduated from the Willoughby (Ohio) Collegiate Institute in 1861.

With the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Union Army in 1862 and served in the Twenty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was captured with the regiment at Harpers Ferry on September 15, 1862. He was paroled and returned to Ohio, where he taught school in Kirkland and Painesville. Corlet reentered the army with the Twenty-fifth Ohio Battery. He was later placed on detached service with the Third Iowa Battery. He returned to Ohio in 1865 and mustered out of the army.

He attended the law school of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and was graduated from Union Law College, Cleveland, Ohio, in July 1866.He was admitted to the bar the same year. Professor in elementary law at the State University and Law College and lecturer at several commercial colleges in Cleveland.He settled in Cheyenne, Wyoming, August 20, 1867, and engaged in the practice of law.He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Delegate to the Forty-first Congress in 1869. Postmaster of Cheyenne in 1870.He served as member of the Territorial senate in 1871.He served as prosecuting attorney of Laramie County 1872-1876.

Corlett was elected as a Republican a Delegate to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879).He was not a candidate for renomination in 1878.He resumed the practice of law.He declined the appointment as chief justice of Wyoming Territory in 1879.He served as member of the legislative council 1880-1882.He died in Cheyenne, Wyoming, July 22, 1890.He was interred in Lakeview Cemetery.

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