Hiram Parks Bell

Hiram Parks Bell

Hiram Parks Bell (* 19th January 1827 in Jefferson , Jackson County , Georgia , †  17th August 1907 in Atlanta , Georgia) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ), of the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives and in the Konföderiertenkongress represented .

After completing his schooling, Bell first worked as a teacher himself for two years before studying law and was admitted to the bar in 1849, after which he began to practice in Cumming . In the run-up to the civil war , Bell took part in his state's secession convention , but voted against the secession from the Union. He later coordinated Georgia’s approach to establishing the Confederate States with neighboring Tennessee .

In 1861 Bell served briefly in the Georgia Senate ; but he resigned his mandate there to join the Confederate Army. There he initially served as a captain ; later he was promoted to colonel of the 43rd Georgia Regiment. He subsequently became politically active again and was a member of the House of Representatives at the second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865 .

After the war he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic Party of Georgia from 1868 to 1871. In 1872, Bell was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington as representative of Georgia’s 9th  Congressional District. He stayed there from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. As a result, he took part in the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis in 1876 and was his state representative on the Democratic National Committee .

Bell returned to Congress on March 13, 1877 . He took the House's place in the Senate exchanged Benjamin Harvey Hill one. When trying to be re-elected, he was defeated by Emory Speer , so that he had to leave parliament on March 3, 1879. However, he continued to be politically active: as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1898 to 1899 and again as State Senator between 1900 and 1901.

Web links

• Hiram Parks Bell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hiram Parks Bell in the database of Find a Grave (English)