Joseph Bellinger

Joseph Bellinger (* 1773 in Ashepoo, Colleton County, South Carolina; † January 10, 1830 in Charleston, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Bellinger came on the plantation of his family to the world; his exact date of birth is not known. Later he became a planter on his own plantation " Aeolian Lawn ". Politically, he was a member of the founded by President Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1802 and 1809, Bellinger deputy in the House of Representatives from South Carolina, from 1810 to 1813 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1816 he was in the fourth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1817, the successor of John J. Chappell. Since he resigned in the elections of the year 1818 for reelection, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1819. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Bellinger moved back out of politics. He died on January 10, 1830 in Charleston and was buried in the family cemetery at Ashepoo.