Painting by Welles entitled Lady from the late 1800s
Charles Stuart Welles, February 22, 1848 (London, Ont.) - February 5, 1927 (Little Brickhill, England)
VP candidate for Equal Rights Party (1888)
Running mate with nominee: Belva Lockwood (1830-1917)
Popular vote: 0 (0%)
Electoral vote: 0/401
The campaign:
Welles was a last-minute replacement for running mate after the original choice and appropriately named peace activist Alfred H. Love declined the position.
None of the votes for the Equal Rights Party appear to be recorded.
Election history: none.
Other occupations: Physician, author, novelist, first Secretary of the American Embassy in London
Buried: Mursley, Buckinghamshire, England
Notes:
Also known as Charles Stewart Welles, or Charles S. Wells.
Frequently confused with Charles Stuart Faucheraud Weld.
Married to Ella Miles, the niece of Victoria Woodhull.
Worked at New York PolyClinic.
Educated at Dartmouth.
Born to American parents in Canada while his father was in railroad construction.
Moved to England in 1898 to be the physician for the American Embassy.
Descendant of Connecticut Colony Gov. Thomas Welles, distant cousin to Sec. of Navy Gideon
Welles.
"Dabbled in poetry, painting, and hypnotism."
Worked in the American Embassy in London under Edwards Pierrepont, 1876, returned to America
to be part of the Hayes campaign.
