About Wesley Bell
All his life, Wesley Bell has worked to find solutions to problems big and small. Raised in North St. Louis County, Wesley is the son of a police officer and county civil servant. A proud graduate of Hazelwood East High School, he worked multiple jobs to put himself through college at Lindenwood University before earning his law degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law.
Wesley then returned to St. Louis as a public defender, where he witnessed firsthand the inequities in the criminal justice system. He went on to serve as a professor, a judge, and a prosecutor, and when protests erupted blocks from his own home in Ferguson in 2014, Wesley showed up, sometimes physically standing between protesters and police. He later partnered with the Department of Justice to reform the city's police and court systems. In 2018, Wesley challenged a 28-year incumbent for St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney and won. Leading Missouri's largest prosecutor's office, he created a gun violence task force that seized over 200 illegal firearms off our streets, and expanded diversion programs for non-violent offenders with a nearly 90% success rate.
In 2024, the people of St. Louis demanded better and more accountable representation in Washington, and elected Wesley to Congress, where he has taken the fight directly to the reckless and corrupt Trump administration. He's voted to defund and dismantle and prosecute ICE and introduced legislation banning the agency from using taxpayer dollars on recruitment ads. He championed efforts to impeach and remove Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security. A member of the House Oversight Committee, Wesley has led efforts to secure the release of all of the Epstein files, and is fighting back against MAGA attempts to overturn our elections.
Wesley has been delivering real results for St. Louis. Whether it's fighting for families affected by environmental toxins, securing disaster relief after devastating tornadoes, protecting military families' access to health care, or modernizing Lambert Airport to help grow St. Louis into a bigger engine of economic activity, Wesley shows up, does the work, and brings resources home. Wesley and his team have already solved more than 750 cases for St. Louisans who contacted his office for help. His constituents elected him to focus on them and deliver, and that's exactly what he's doing.
Now, Wesley is running for reelection to continue fighting for his constituents in Washington: holding the Trump administration and MAGA Republicans accountable, expanding access to affordable health care and prescription drugs, lowering energy costs, bringing down the price of groceries, protecting our rights and freedoms, and creating good-paying jobs right here in St. Louis.
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives write and vote on federal laws, including the federal budget. Each represents one district and serves a two-year term. Tax bills must start in the House, only the House can impeach federal officials, and members oversee federal agencies through their committees.
