Candidate · U.S. House, District 1
Wesley Bell
What this job does: Your district's one vote in the U.S. House. House members write and vote on federal laws, taxes and spending, and every bill to raise taxes has to start in the House. A term is two years.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- U.S. Representative, Missouri's 1st District (since January 2025)
- Occupation
- U.S. Representative; attorney
Background
- St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney, January 2019 to January 2025. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Elected to the Ferguson City Council in 2015. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Worked as a St. Louis County public defender, a criminology professor at Florissant Valley Community College, a municipal judge in Velda City and a municipal prosecutor in Riverview. source: en.wikipedia.org
- B.A., Lindenwood University; J.D., University of Missouri School of Law. source: en.wikipedia.org
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