Heber Manning Wells (11 August 1859-12 March 1938) was the Republican Governor of Utah from 6 January 1896 to 2 January 1905, succeeding Caleb Walton West and preceding John Christopher Cutler.
Biography[]
Heber Manning Wells was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1859, the son of Mormon Salt Lake City mayor Daniel H. Wells and the brother of US Army general Briant H. Wells. Wells worked in banking and local government before serving as Salt Lake City Recorder and Auditor from 1882 to 1890 and as Governor from 1896 to 1905, organizing the new state government and establishing Southern Utah University and the Utah Arts Council. He suppressed the 1903-1904 Carbon County Strike with the state national guard, and he lost re-election in 1904 and served as Salt Lake City's Commissioner of Parks and Property from 1913 to 1917 ad as a newspaper editor. He died in 1938.