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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Bell, Joshua Fry
Bell, Joshua Fry, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Danville, Boyle County, Ky., November 26, 1811; attended the public schools; was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1828; studied law in Lexington, Ky.; traveled in Europe for several years before admission to the bar; commenced practice in Danville, Boyle County, Ky.; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1846; secretary of state of Kentucky in 1849; presidential elector on the Whig ticket of Scott and Graham in 1852; chosen by the legislature as one of six commissioners to the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; delegate to the Border State convention in 1861; nominated in 1863 by the Union Democrats for Governor of Kentucky, but declined to accept the nomination; member of the State house of representatives 1862-1867; died in Danville, Ky., August 17, 1870; interment in Bellevue Cemetery.
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Chicago:
U.S. Congress, "Bell, Joshua Fry," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.836 Original Sources, accessed July 11, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U6MJPT6E7YB55JC.
MLA:
U.S. Congress. "Bell, Joshua Fry." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.836, Original Sources. 11 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U6MJPT6E7YB55JC.
Harvard:
U.S. Congress, 'Bell, Joshua Fry' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.836. Original Sources, retrieved 11 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U6MJPT6E7YB55JC.
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