John Calhoun Bell

John Calhoun Bell ( * December 11, 1851 at Sewanee, Tennessee; † August 12, 1933 in Montrose, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1903 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Bell attended both public and private schools in Franklin County, Tennessee. After legal studies in Winchester, he was admitted in 1874 as a lawyer. In the same year he moved to Del Norte in Colorado and then to Saguache, where he worked as a lawyer. Between 1874 and 1876 he was district attorney in Saguache County. After a 1876 made ​​moving to Lake City, he was district administrator ( County Clerk ) in Hinsdale County. 1885 Bell was mayor of the town of Lake City. Since 1886 he has been resident in Montrose, where he worked as a lawyer. Between 1889 and 1892 he served as a judge in the Seventh Judicial District of the State of.

Politically, Bell was a member of the short-lived Populist Party. In 1892 he was chosen as their candidate in the newly created second district of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. After he was confirmed in each case in the following four choices, he could remain between 4 March 1893 to 3 March 1903 Congress. In the years 1900 and 1901 he was a member of the Industrial Commission of the United States. In the elections of 1902 he was defeated by Republican Herschel M. Hogg. After the end of his time in Congress Bell again worked as a lawyer in Montrose. Between 1913 and 1915 he was a judge at the Court of Appeal and then again lawyer. From 1931 to 1933 he was a member of the Agriculture Committee, his home state. John Bell died in August 1933 and was buried in Montrose.