Politics
- William Benjamin Wells (1809–1881), Canadian lawyer, judge, journalist and politician
- William H. Wells (1769–1829), American lawyer and U.S. Senator from Delaware
- William Wells (British politician) (1908–1990), Barrister, MP for Walsall North from 1945-74
- William Wells (New Zealand politician) (1810–1893), member of New Zealand Parliament
- William Wells (1818–1889), British Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Beverley, 1852–1857, and Peterborough, 1874–1874
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“In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
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