- Guilford Wiley Wells
Guilford Wiley Wells (
February 14 ,1840 -March 21 ,1909 ) was a U.S. Representative fromMississippi .Born in
Conesus Center, New York , Wells attended the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and College,Lima, New York . Enlisted in theUnion Army as a private in the Twenty-seventh New York InfantryMay 21 ,1861 .He was promoted to second lieutenant in the One Hundred and Thirtieth New York Infantry in 1862 and subsequently to first lieutenant and captain in the Nineteenth New York Cavalry. Mustered outFebruary 10 ,1865 , as a lieutenant colonel.He was graduated from the law department of Columbian College (laterGeorge Washington University ).He was in theWashington, D.C. , in 1867.He was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice inHolly Springs, Mississippi . United States attorney for the northern district of Mississippi 1870-1875.Wells was elected as an Independent Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress (
March 4 ,1875 -March 3 ,1877 ).He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1876. Consul general at Shanghai, China, fromJune 23 ,1877 , toMay 26 ,1879 .He settled inLos Angeles, California , in 1879 and resumed the practice of law.He died inSanta Monica, California ,March 21 ,1909 .He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery,Los Angeles, California .References
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