Joshua Fry Bell

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Joshua Fry Bell

Joshua Fry Bell (born November 26, 1811 in Danville , Kentucky , †  August 17, 1870 there ) was an American politician . Between 1845 and 1847 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Life

Joshua Bell attended the public schools of his home country as well as the Center College in Danville, which he graduated in 1828. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Danville in this profession. However, between the end of his studies and his admission as a lawyer, he initially spent a few years in Europe.

Politically, Bell was a member of the Whig Party . In the congressional elections of 1844 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Democrat George Caldwell on March 4, 1845 . Since he waived re-election in 1846, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1847 . This was shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War .

In 1849, Bell became an executive officer of the state government of Kentucky as Secretary of State . In the spring of 1861 he was a member of a negotiating commission that unsuccessfully tried to prevent the outbreak of civil war in the federal capital, Washington . In the same year he was also a delegate at an assembly of the states that were in the border area between the northern and southern states. In 1863 he was set up by the pro-union faction of the Democrats as a candidate for the gubernatorial election in Kentucky; Bell declined the nomination. Between 1862 and 1867 he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives . Joshua Bell died on August 17, 1870 in his native Danville and was buried there. In Kentucky, Bell County was named after him.

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