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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ColoradoBELL, John Calhoun
(1851—1933)
BELL, John Calhoun, a Representative from Colorado; born near Sewanee, Franklin County, Tenn., December 11, 1851; attended public and private schools in Franklin County; studied law in Winchester, Tenn., and was admitted to the bar in 1874; moved to Colorado in 1874 and commenced practice in Del Norte, moving to Saguache, Colo., the same year; county attorney of Saguache County, Colo., from 1874 to May 1876; moved to Lake City, Colo., in 1876; elected county clerk of Hinsdale County in 1878; mayor of Lake City in 1885; moved to Montrose, Montrose County, Colo., in 1886 and continued the practice of law; served as judge of the seventh judicial district of Colorado from 1889 until his resignation in 1892, having been elected to Congress; elected as a Populist to the Fifty-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1903); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; member of the United States Industrial Commission in 1900 and 1901; resumed the practice of law in Montrose, Colo.; judge of the Court of Appeals of Colorado 1913-1915; again resumed the practice of law; member of the State board of agriculture 1931-1933; died in Montrose, Colo., August 12, 1933; interment in the Cedar Cemetery.
Bell, John Calhoun. Against the bond issue. Speech of Hon. John C. Bell, of Colorado, in the House, April 27, 1898
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
———. The bankruptcy bill. Speech of Hon. J.C. Bell, of Colorado, in the House. February 16, 17, and 18, 1898
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
———. The financial bill. Speech of Hon. John C. Bell, of Colorado, in the House ... December 13, 1899
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1899.
———. Increase the regular army of the United States. Speech of Hon. Jno. C. Bell, of Colorado, in the House of Representatives ... April 6, 1898
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
———. Increasing expenditures and expenses of government ... Speech of Hon. John C. Bell, of Colorado, in the House ... June 2, 1900
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1900.
———. The Loud bill. Speech of Hon. J.C. Bell, of Colorado, in the House of Representatives,, March 2, 1899
. 1898. Reprint, Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1900.
———. Market value of bank deposits. Speech of Hon. John C. Bell, of Colorado, in the House ... February 14, 1900
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1900.
———. The pilgrim and the pioneer; the social and material developments in the Rocky Mountains
. College View, Lincoln, Neb.: The International publishing ass’n, [1906].
———. Post-office appropriation bill. Speech of Hon. John C. Bell, of Colorado, in the House ... March 16 and 19, 1898
. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898].
———. Proposed annexation of Hawaii. Speech of Hon. John C. Bell, of Colorado, in the House of Representatives, Monday, June 13, 1898
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
———. Speeches of Hon. John C. Bell, of Colorado, in the House of Representatives, January 11 and 12, 1898. On appropriation for civil-service law. Also in opposition to requiring producers to pay for transporting gold from assay offices to the mints
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
———. Urgent deficiency and rural delivery of the mail. Speech of Hon. John C. Bell, of Colorado, in the House ... January 16, 1900
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1900.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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