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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaHiram Parks BELL
(1827-1907)
BELL, Hiram Parks, a
Representative from Georgia; born near Jefferson, Jackson County,
Ga., January 19, 1827; attended the public schools at Cumming,
Forsyth County, Ga.; taught school for two years, during which time
he studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced
practice in Cumming; member of the secession convention in 1861 and
opposed the secession ordinance; commissioner from Georgia to
solicit the cooperation of Tennessee in the formation of a southern
confederacy; member of the State senate in 1861, but resigned to
enter the Confederate Army; during the Civil War was commissioned
captain and later promoted to lieutenant colonel and colonel of the
Forty-third Georgia Regiment; member of the Second Confederate
Congress in 1864 and 1865; member of the Democratic State executive
committee 1868-1871; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third
Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); delegate to the Democratic
National Convention in 1876; was chosen a member of the Democratic
National Committee from the State at large; elected to the
Forty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Benjamin H. Hill and served from March 13, 1877, to March 3,
1879; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1878; member of
the State house of representatives in 1898 and 1899; served in the
State senate in 1900 and 1901; died in Atlanta, Ga., August 17,
1907; interment in Cumming Cemetery, Cumming, Ga.
Bibliography
Bell, Hiram Parks. Men and things. By Hiram P. Bell, being
reminiscent, biographical and historical. Atlanta: Press of the
Foote & Davies company, 1907.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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