Joseph Wales Clift (30 September 1837-2 May 1908) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-GA 1) from 25 July 1868 to 3 March 1869, succeeding Peter Early Love and preceding William W. Paine.
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Joseph Wales Clift was born in North Marshfield, Massachusetts in 1837, and he served as a Union Army surgeon during the American Civil War before moving to Savannah, Georgia during Reconstruction. A carpetbagger, he served as a Republican member of the US House of Representatives from 1868 to 1869, and he died in New York in 1908.