William B. Gere was a farmer, Union Army officer during the American Civil War, and served as a territorial legislator in Minnesota during the 1850s.[1][2] After the war he lived in Sumter County, Alabama and served in the Alabama House of Representatives. He was a Democrat.[3]
He settled in Chatfield, Minnesota. A Civil War era photo of him and others survives.[4] His younger brother Thomas Parke Gere served with him.[5][6][7] The Minnesota Historical Society has some of his papers.[8]