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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriCharles Jasper BELL
(1885-1978)
BELL, Charles Jasper, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Lake City, Hinsdale County,
Colo., January 16, 1885; attended the country schools in Jackson
County, Mo., Lees Summit (Mo.) High School, and the University of
Missouri at Columbia; was graduated from Kansas City (Mo.) School
of Law in 1913; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice in Kansas City, Mo.; member of the city council of Kansas
City 1926-1930; member of the committee to draft the administrative
code which comprises the general law of Kansas City, Mo.; judge of
the circuit court of Jackson County, Mo., from 1931 until his
resignation in 1934; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth
and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-Januray 3,
1949); chairman, Committee on Elections No. 1 (Seventy-sixth and
Seventy-seventh Congresses), Committee on Insular Affairs
(Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses); member of the
Filipino Rehabilitation Commission in 1945 and 1946; was not a
candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress;
resumed the practice of law; managing private investments; died in
Kansas City, Mo., January 21, 1978; interment in Blue Springs
Cemetery, Blue Springs, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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