William Newell Vaile (June 22, 1876 – July 2, 1927) was an American lawyer, military veteran, and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Colorado from 1919 until his death in 1927.

Born in Kokomo, Indiana, Vaile moved with his parents to Denver, Colorado, in 1881.

During the Spanish–American War, he served as a private in the First Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Field Artillery from May 19, 1898, to October 25, 1898.

[2] He served on the Mexican border from June 28 to December 1, 1916, as a second lieutenant in the First Separate Battalion, National Guard of Colorado.

Vaile was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1919, until his death on July 2, 1927.

Let us concede, in all fairness that the Czech is a more sturdy laborer … that the Jew is the best businessman in the world, and that the Italian has … a spiritual exaltation and an artistic creative sense which the Nordic rarely attains.

Rec., April 8, 1924, 5922In the fall of 1925, Vaile published a novel, The Mystery of Golconda, which dealt with life in the mining camps of the Rocky Mountains.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress