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Hiram Parks Bell

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Born: January 19, 1827

Birthplace: Jefferson, Jackson County, Georgia

Father: Joseph Scott Bell 1794 – 1876
(Buried: Mars Hill Cemetery, Forsyth County, Georgia)​

Mother: Rachael Phinazee 1794 – 1885
(Buried: Mars Hill Cemetery, Forsyth County, Georgia)​

1st​ Wife: Virginia Margaret “Jennie” Lester 1830 – 1888
(Buried: Cumming City Cemetery, Cumming, Georgia)​

Married: January 22, 1850 in Cumming, Georgia

2nd​ Wife: Annie Adelaide Jordan 1848 – 1900

Married: January 11, 1890 in Eatonton, Georgia

Children:

Leonidas Clifford Bell 1850 – 1852​
(Buried: Cumming City Cemetery, Cumming, Georgia)​
Mary Ruth Bell Gardner 1853 – 1899​
(Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, Cedartown, Georgia)​
Judge George Lester Bell 1857 – 1926​
(Buried: Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia)​
Julia Lester Bell Tate 1859 – 1929​
(Buried: Old Tate Cemetery, Tate, Georgia)​
Virginia Lester Bell 1875 – 1905​
(Buried: Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia)​
Paul Gardner Bell 1887 – 1891​
(Buried: Cumming City Cemetery, Cumming, Georgia)​

Political Party: Democratic Party

Occupation before War:


School Teacher in Ellijay Georgia for two years​
1849 – 1861: Attorney in Cumming Georgia​

Civil War Career:

1861: Delegate to Georgia State Secession Convention​
1861: Opposed to Secession at Georgia Secession Convention​
1861: Georgia Commissioner to urge Tennessee to leave the Union​
1861: Georgia State Senator​
1861 – 1864: Served in 43rd​ Georgia Infantry rising to rank of Colonel​
1862: Wounded at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou near Vicksburg​
1864 – 1865: Confederate States Congressman from Georgia​
1864 – 1865: Member of House Committee on Elections​
1864 – 1865: Member of House Committee on Patents​
1864 – 1865: Member of House Committee on Post Office and Roads​
1864 – 1865: Opposed most new war measures in Congress​
1864 – 1865: Proposed to change ad valorem tax to avoid inequities​
1864 – 1865: Advocate for ending impressment of farm produce​
1865: Left Congress a month before war ended to care for family​

Occupation after War:

1865 – 1907: Attorney in Cumming Georgia having a huge practice​
1868 – 1871: Member of Georgia Democratic Executive Committee​
1868: Georgia Delegate to Democratic Party National Convention​
1873 – 1875: United States Congressman from Georgia​
1873 – 1875: Member of House Coinage, Weights and Measures​
1873 – 1875: Helped Northern Georgia get railroad development​
1876: Georgia Delegate to Democratic Party National Convention​
1877 – 1879: United States Congressman from Georgia​
1877 – 1879: Member of House Banking and Currency Committee​
1877 – 1879: Member of House Education and Labor Committee​
1878: Unsuccessful Candidate for reelection as U.S. Congressman​
1898 – 1899: Georgia State Representative​
1900 – 1901: Georgia State Senator​
1900 – 1901: Chairman to Revise Georgia Constitution on taxation​

Died: August 17, 1907

Place of Death: Atlanta, Georgia

Age at time of Death: 80 years old

Burial Place: Cumming City Cemetery, Cumming, Georgia
 
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