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See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
BELL, See also:JOHN (1797-1869) , See also:American See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born near See also:Nashville, See also:Tennessee, on the 15th of See also:February 1797. He graduated at the university of Nashville in 1814, and in 1817 was elected to the See also:state See also:senate, but retiring after one See also:term, he devoted himself for ten years to the study and the practice of the See also:law. From 1827 until 1841 he was a member of the See also:national See also:House of Representatives, of which from See also:June 1834 to See also:March 1835 he was the See also:speaker, and in which he was conspicuous as a debater and a conservative leader. Though he entered political See also:life as a Democrat, he became estranged from his party's leader, See also:President See also:Jackson, also a Tennessean, and after 1835 was one of the leaders of the Whig party in the See also:South. In March 1841 he became the secretary of See also:war in President See also:Harrison's See also:cabinet, but in See also:September, after the See also:death of Harrison and the rupture between the Whig leaders and President See also:Tyler, he resigned this position. From 1847 until 1859 he was a member of the See also:United States Senate, and attracted See also:attention by his ability in debate and his political See also:independence, being one of two See also:Southern senators to See also:vote against the See also:Kansas-See also:Nebraska See also:Bill of 1854 and against the See also:admission of Kansas with the Lecompton or See also:pro-See also:slavery constitution in 1858. Strongly conservative by temperament and devoted to the See also:Union, he ardently desired to prevent the threatened See also:secession of the Southern states in 1860, and was the See also:candidate, for the See also:presidency, of the Constitutional Union Party, often called from the names of its candidates for the presidency and the See also:vice-presidency (See also:Edward See also:Everett) the " Bell and Everett Party," which was made up largely of former Whigs and Southern "Know-Nothings," opposed sectionalism, and strove to prevent the disruption of the union. The party adopted no See also:platform, and discarding all other issues, resolved that "it is both the See also:part of patriotism and of See also:duty to recognize no political principle other than the constitution of the See also:country, the union of the states, and the enforcement of the See also:laws." Bell was defeated, but received a popular vote of 587,830 (mostly See also:cast in the Southern states), and obtained the electoral votes of See also:Virginia, See also:Kentucky and Tennessee—39 altogether, out of a See also:total of 303. Bell tried earnestly to prevent the secession of his own state, but after the issue of President See also:Lincoln's See also:proclamation of the 15th of See also:April 1861 calling on the various states for See also:volunteers, his efforts were unavailing, and when Tennessee joined the Confederacy Bell " went with his state." He took no part in the See also:Civil War, and died on the loth of September 1869.
End of Article: BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
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