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{{Infobox person
| name=Hugh Maxwell Wallis
(Physician, publisher, and mayor of Houma, Louisiana)
| birth_date=November 12, 1836
| birth_place=Kent County, [[Maryland]], USA
| death_place=Covington, St. Tammany Parish, [[Louisiana]]
| death_date=December 23, 1903 (aged 75)<br>
'''Resting place''':<br>
Magnolia Cemetery in Houma
| nationality=[[Americans|American]]
| religion=[[Episcopalian]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| spouse=Mary Howard Price (married 1860)<br>
'''Twelve children''':<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Hugh and Hannah Brooks Wright Maxwell}}
'''Hugh Maxwell Wallis'' (November 12, 1836 – December 23, 1903) was a [[physician]], publisher, and [[politician]] from Houma in Terrebonne Parish, [[Louisiana]].
Wallis was born in Kent County, [[Maryland]], the son of Hugh Wallis and the former Hannah Brooks Wright. He was educated at Jefferson Medical College in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], from which he graduated in 1860. That same year, he married the former Mary Howard Price, a native of Natchez, [[Mississippi]], and a daughter of Dr. Isaac Mitchell Price and the former Louise C. Howard. The couple had twelve children, one of whom died at the age of one year.<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-w/|title=Wallis, Hugh Maxwell|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 23, 2020}}</ref>
Dr. Wallis located his practice in Houma in 1861. A [[Republican Party|Republican]], he was from 1878 to 1882 a post-[[Reconstruction]] [[mayor]] of Houma. He founded and published ''The Terrebonne Times,'' a Republican-oriented journal. He was an [[Episcopalian]]. He died in Covington in St. Tammany Parish at the age of sixty-seven and is interred at Magnolia Cemetery in Houma.<ref name=lahist/>
==References==
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[[Category:Republicans]]
| name=Hugh Maxwell Wallis
(Physician, publisher, and mayor of Houma, Louisiana)
| birth_date=November 12, 1836
| birth_place=Kent County, [[Maryland]], USA
| death_place=Covington, St. Tammany Parish, [[Louisiana]]
| death_date=December 23, 1903 (aged 75)<br>
'''Resting place''':<br>
Magnolia Cemetery in Houma
| nationality=[[Americans|American]]
| religion=[[Episcopalian]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| spouse=Mary Howard Price (married 1860)<br>
'''Twelve children''':<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Hugh and Hannah Brooks Wright Maxwell}}
'''Hugh Maxwell Wallis'' (November 12, 1836 – December 23, 1903) was a [[physician]], publisher, and [[politician]] from Houma in Terrebonne Parish, [[Louisiana]].
Wallis was born in Kent County, [[Maryland]], the son of Hugh Wallis and the former Hannah Brooks Wright. He was educated at Jefferson Medical College in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], from which he graduated in 1860. That same year, he married the former Mary Howard Price, a native of Natchez, [[Mississippi]], and a daughter of Dr. Isaac Mitchell Price and the former Louise C. Howard. The couple had twelve children, one of whom died at the age of one year.<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-w/|title=Wallis, Hugh Maxwell|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 23, 2020}}</ref>
Dr. Wallis located his practice in Houma in 1861. A [[Republican Party|Republican]], he was from 1878 to 1882 a post-[[Reconstruction]] [[mayor]] of Houma. He founded and published ''The Terrebonne Times,'' a Republican-oriented journal. He was an [[Episcopalian]]. He died in Covington in St. Tammany Parish at the age of sixty-seven and is interred at Magnolia Cemetery in Houma.<ref name=lahist/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallis, Hugh Maxwell}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Maryland]]
[[Category:Physicians]]
[[Category:Publishers]]
[[Category:Episcopalian]]
[[Category:Republicans]]