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James Madison Wells (January 7, 1808 – February 28, 1899) was elected Lieutenant Governor and became the 20th Governor of Louisiana during Reconstruction.
7 de dic. de 2016 · A lexandria native James Wells served as governor of Louisiana from 1865 until 1867, leading the state’s initial efforts at Reconstruction. After serving as lieutenant governor under Michael Hahn , Wells assumed the office when Hahn was named to the U.S. Senate.
Gov. James Madison Wells. Terms March 3, 1865 - June 3, 1867 ; Party Republican ; Born January 8, 1808 ; Passed February 28, 1899 ; Birth State Louisiana ; School St. Joseph's College, Cincinnati Law School
Career after Term: Chairman of the State Returning Board which reviewed election results. Died: February 18, 1899 in Lecompte, Louisiana and is interred in Rapides Parish. James Madison Wells became Governor upon the resignation of Governor Hahn who left office to serve in the U. S. Senate.
Southern Unionism - Essential Civil War Curriculum. by David Williams. Between 1861 and 81865, the South was torn apart by a violent inner civil war, as significant to the Confederacy's fate as the struggle against the North.
When James Madison Wells was born on 8 January 1808, in Alexandria, Rapides, Louisiana, United States, his father, Samuel Levi Wells II, was 43 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Calvit, was 36. He married Mary Ann Scott on 11 May 1832, in Rapides, Louisiana, United States.
James Madison Wells was elected Lieutenant Governor and became the 20th Governor of Louisiana during Reconstruction.
