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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaBELLAMY, John Dillard
(1854—1942)
BELLAMY, John Dillard, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Wilmington, N.C., March 24, 1854; attended the common schools and Cape Fear Military Academy; was graduated from Davidson College, Davidson, N.C., in 1873 and from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1875; was admitted to the bar in 1875 and commenced the practice of law in Wilmington, N.C.; city attorney of Wilmington 1892-1894; member of the State senate 1900-1902; delegate at large to the Democratic National Conventions in 1892, 1908, and 1920; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1903); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Wilmington, N.C.; also engaged as an author; district counsel for the Seaboard Air Line Railway Co., the Southern Bell Telephone Co., and the Western Union Telegraph Co.; also connected with the street railway company and cotton mills in Wilmington, N.C.; appointed by Governor McLean as a commissioner from North Carolina to the celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington, held in Washington, D.C., in 1932; died in Wilmington, N.C., September 25, 1942; interment in Oakdale Cemetery.
Bibliography
Bellamy, John Dillard. Memoirs of an Octogenarian
. [Charlotte, N.C.: Observer Printing House, 1942].
Bellamy, John Dillard. Address by John D. Bellamy on the Life and Services of General Alexander Lillington
. Washington, D.C.: Press of Judd & Detweiler (inc.), 1905.
———. The bar of the lower Cape Fear; an address delivered by Hon. John D. Bellamy before the North Carolina Bar Association, Asheville, N.C., July 2, 1925
. Raleigh: Mitchell Printing Company, 1925.
———. Memoirs of an Octogenarian
. [Charlotte, N.C.: Observer Printing House, 1942].
———. Remarks of Hon. John D. Bellamy, of North Carolina in the House of Representatives, Thursday, February 1, 1900
. Washington: N.p., 1900.
———. Sketch of Maj. Gen. Robert Howe, of the American Revolution, delivered March 16th
. Wilmington, N.C.: S. G. Hall, printer, 1882.
———. Speech of Hon. John D. Bellamy, of North Carolina, in the House of Representatives, February 14, 1903, on H.R. 17356, to erect an equestrian statue at Wilmington, N.C., to the memory of Maj. Gen. Robert Howe, of the American Revolution.
Washington: N.p., 1903.
———. Speech of Hon. John D. Bellamy, of North Carolina, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the bill levying a discriminating duty on imports and exports from the territory of Puerto Rico, delivered Tuesday, February 27, 1900
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1900.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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