Torrey Eglesby Wales (June 20, 1820 – July 5, 1902) was an American politician who served as the 2nd Mayor of Burlington, Vermont.

He attended the University of Vermont, where he was a member of the board of trustees later in life, from 1837 to 1841, and studied law under with Archibald Hyde and later Asahel Peck.

[4][3][5] Wales sought a warmer climate in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1846 due to illness and lived there for three years.

[2] Originally a Whig,[7] and later a Republican, Wales was long active in Vermont politics and government.

He served on the board of aldermen from 1869 to 1871, and performed the mayor's duties after the resignation of Daniel Chipman Linsley.

[6] In April 1868, George Wales was accidentally shot in the lung by the instructor who was teaching him business writing at a Burlington commercial college.

Senators Justin Smith Morrill and Henry L. Dawes, and Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs (chief assistant) to Governor John L.