Joseph M. Belford

Joseph McCrum Belford (* August 5, 1852 in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, † May 3, 1917 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph McCrum Belford was born about nine years before the outbreak of civil war in Mifflintown. He attended Lycoming College in Williamsport and graduated in 1871 at Dickinson College in Carlisle. In 1884, he moved to Long Iceland, where he taught at the Franklinville and Riverhead Academies. He studied law and began after the receipt of his admission as a solicitor in 1889 to practice in Riverhead. In the following years he worked as a secretary ( secretary ) and Chairman of the Suffolk County Republican Committee and worked as a legal clerkship ( clerk ) at Vormutschaftsgericht ( surrogate court).

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1896 Belford was elected in the first district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Richard C. McCormick on March 4, 1897. Since he resigned in 1898 to run again, he retired after March 3 in 1899 from the Congress. The following year he took part in Philadelphia as a delegate to the Republican National Convention. Belford was in Riverhead returned to the bar and went banking by. Between 1904 and 1910 he worked as guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ) in Suffolk County. He died on 3 May 1917 in the Grand Central Station of New York City. His body was then buried in Riverhead Cemetery, Riverhead. His cousin was Congressman James B. Belford.