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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ColoradoBELFORD, James Burns
(1837—1910)
BELFORD, James Burns, (cousin of Joseph McCrum Belford), a Representative from Colorado; born in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pa., September 28, 1837; attended the common schools and Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859; moved to California, Moniteau County, Mo., and commenced practice; moved to La Porte, La Porte County, Ind., in 1860; member of the State house of representatives in 1867; appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of Colorado in 1870 and moved to Central City; moved to Denver in 1883; upon the admission of Colorado as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress and served from October 3, 1876, until March 3, 1877; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1877, until December 13, 1877, when he was succeeded by Thomas M. Patterson, who contested his election; elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1885); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Forty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1884; engaged in the practice of law in Denver, Colo., until his death there January 10, 1910; interment in Riverside Cemetery.
Belford, James Burns. Address of Hon. J. B. Belford before the Colorado agricultural society at its seventh annual exhibition
. Denver, Col.: Printed by the Denver Tribune Association, 1872.
———. Bureau of animal industry
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1884.
———. The Colorado case
. Washington: National Republican Printing House, 1877.
———. Tribute to the memory of the late Hon. Dudley C. Haskell, by Hon. James B. Belford, of Colorado, in the House of Representatives, February 28, 1884
. Washington: [Government Printing Office] 1884.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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