Daniel Wells Junior

Daniel Wells Junior

Daniel Wells junior (born July 16, 1808 in West Waterville , Kennebec County , Massachusetts , † March 18, 1902 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1853 and 1857 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Daniel Wells was born in 1808 in West Waterville, which at that time was still an independent town in Massachusetts and now belongs to the city of Oakland in the state of Maine . He attended the public schools in his home country and then worked as a teacher himself. In Palmyra he worked in commerce. In 1838 Wells moved to Milwaukee, where he worked in the banking and lumber business. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party .

Between 1838 and 1840 Wells served on the Wisconsin Territory Council of Governors . In the congressional elections of 1852 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the first constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded Charles Durkee on March 4, 1953 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1857 . These were shaped by the events and discussions leading up to the civil war . Between 1953 and 1955, Wells chaired the State Department's Expenditure Control Committee.

In 1856 Wells decided not to run again. In the following years he was involved in the railway business. He was on the board of three railway companies. He was president of two of them. Wells was no longer politically active after leaving the US House of Representatives. He died in Milwaukee on March 18, 1902.

Web links

• Daniel Wells in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Daniel Wells junior in the database of Find a Grave (English)