The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Wells, Heber Manning
WELLS, Heber Manning, American
politician: b. Salt Lake City, 11 Aug. 1859. He
was graduated from the University of Utah in
1875, and began early to take an active part in
public life. He was recorder of Salt Lake City
in 1882-90, and a member of the city board of
public works in 1890 and in 1893. He was a
member of the constitutional convention which
framed the constitution under which Utah was
admitted as a State; in 1895 was elected
governor of Utah for a five years' term on the
Republican ticket, and in 1900 was re-elected for
a four years' term. During the prolonged
struggle between the mine owners and miners'
unions in 1904, he maintained an impartial attitude
as far as possible, but firmly opposed
anarchy and disorder. In 1905 he retired from
politics and engaged in banking business.