James Edwin Belser

James Edwin Belser ( born December 22, 1805 in Charleston, South Carolina; † 16 January 1859 in Montgomery, Alabama) was an American lawyer and politician (Democratic Party).

Career

James Edwin Belser attended a public school until 1820. At that time his family moved to Sumter District ( South Carolina), where he further taught a private tutor. Belser moved to Alabama in 1825 and settled in Montgomery. He studied law and began after his admission to the lawyer there to practice. In the following time he was elected Clerk of the District Court. He was in 1828 a member of the House of Representatives from Alabama. In addition, he was appointed in the same year for Solicitor in Montgomery County, a position to which he was elected later. He also issue several years the Planters Gazette out. Governor Fitzpatrick then appointed him in 1842 to a Commissioner who should provide a balance to the federal government for the money that was advanced to her during the Indian war of 1836. Belser was elected to the 28th U.S. Congress, where he served from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1845. He declined in 1844 for reelection to the U.S. Congress from. Then he resumed his activities as a lawyer in Montgomery. Belser was 1848, the Whig party close. He was re-elected in 1853 and 1857 in the House of Representatives from Alabama.

James Edwin Belser died 1859 in Montgomery and was buried there in the Oakwood Cemetery.

Charleston (South Carolina) Montgomery (Alabama) Montgomery County (Alabama) Governor (United States) Benjamin Fitzpatrick Whig Party (United States) Alabama Territory John Crowell (Alabama) Gabriel Moore Reuben Chapman Edmund Strother Dargan John Gayle (Alabama) William J. Alston John Bragg (politician) Philip Phillips (lawyer) Percy Walker Francis William Kellogg Benjamin S. Turner Frederick George Bromberg Jeremiah Haralson James T. Jones Thomas H. Herndon Richard Henry Clarke George W. Taylor (politician) Oscar Lee Gray John McDuffie Frank W. Boykin Jo Bonner John McKee Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Samuel Wright Mardis John McKinley Joshua L. Martin David Hubbard George S. Houston Henry Washington Hilliard James Abercrombie (Congressman) Eli Sims Shorter James L. Pugh James T. Rapier Jeremiah Norman Williams Hilary A. Herbert Jesse F. Stallings Ariosto A. Wiley Oliver C. Wiley S. Hubert Dent, Jr. John R. Tyson J. Lister Hill George M. Grant William Louis Dickinson Bobby Bright Martha Roby George Washington Owen Joab Lawler James La Fayette Cottrell Sampson Willis Harris David Clopton Benjamin White Norris William Anderson Handley Charles Pelham (congressman) Taul Bradford William J. Samford William C. Oates George Paul Harrison, Jr. Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr. Henry B. Steagall George W. Andrews Elizabeth B. Andrews William Flynt Nichols Glen Browder Bob Riley William Winter Payne Samuel Williams Inge William Russell Smith Sydenham Moore Charles Wilson Pierce Charles Hays Charles M. Shelley George Henry Craig Alexander C. Davidson John Van McDuffie Gaston A. Robbins William F. Aldrich Thomas S. Plowman Sydney J. Bowie Fred L. Blackmon Lamar Jeffers Kenneth A. Roberts Robert Aderholt John Murphy (Alabama) Francis Strother Lyon Benjamin Glover Shields John Benton Callis John Henry Caldwell Robert F. Ligon Thomas Williams (Alabama) James E. Cobb Willis Brewer Charles Winston Thompson William B. Bowling LaFayette L. Patterson Miles C. Allgood Joe Starnes John Hall Buchanan, Jr. Albert L. Smith, Jr. Ben Erdreich Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb Thomas Haughey William Crawford Sherrod Goldsmith W. Hewitt Burwell Boykin Lewis Newton Nash Clements John Mason Martin John H. Bankhead Richmond P. Hobson William Bacon Oliver Walter Flowers Robert E. Cramer Parker Griffith Mo Brooks Franklin Welsh Bowdon Alexander White (Alabama) Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry Charles Christopher Sheats William H. Forney Milford W. Howard William B. Bankhead Zadoc L. Weatherford Walter W. Bankhead Carter Manasco James D. Martin Claude Harris, Jr. Earl F. Hilliard Artur Davis Terri Sewell William Willis Garth William M. Lowe Joseph Wheeler Luke Pryor William N. Richardson Christopher Columbus Harris Edward B. Almon Archibald Hill Carmichael Oscar Underwood Truman H. Aldrich George Huddleston Luther Patrick John P. Newsome Laurie C. Battle John Abercrombie (Congressman)

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