Joshua Fry Bell

Joshua Fry Bell ( * November 26, 1811 in Danville, Kentucky; † August 17, 1870 ) was an American politician. From 1845 to 1847 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joshua Bell attended the common schools and the Centre College in Danville, which he completed in 1828. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in Danville in this profession. But between the end of his studies and his admission as a lawyer, he first spent a few years in Europe.

Politically, Bell member of the Whig party. In the congressional elections of 1844 he was in the fourth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats George Caldwell on March 4, 1845. Since he resigned in 1846 for re-election, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1847. This was marked by the events of the Mexican-American War.

1849 Bell became acting as Secretary of State official of the State Government of Kentucky. In the spring of 1861 he was a member of a negotiating committee that sought to prevent the outbreak of the Civil War unsuccessfully in the federal capital, Washington. In the same year he was also a delegate to a meeting of the States, which were in the border area between North and South. In 1863 he was set up by the pro-Union faction of the Democrats as a candidate for the gubernatorial election in Kentucky; Bell rejected the nomination from but. Between 1862 and 1867 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. Joshua Bell died on August 17, 1870 in his native Danville and was also buried there. In Kentucky, the Bell County was named after him.