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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Belford, James Burns
Belford, James Burns, a Representative from Colorado; born in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pa., September 28, 1837; attended the common schools and Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859; moved to California, Moniteau County, Mo., and commenced practice; moved to La Porte, La Porte County, Ind., in 1860; member of the State house of representatives in 1867; presidential elector on the Republican ticket of Lincoln and Johnson in 1864; appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of Colorado in 1870 and moved to Central City; moved to Denver in 1883; upon the admission of Colorado as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress and served from October 3, 1876, until March 3, 1877; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1877, until December 13, 1877, when he was succeeded by Thomas M. Patterson, who contested his election; elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1884; engaged in the practice of law in Denver, Colo., until his death there January 10, 1910; interment in Riverside Cemetery.
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Chicago:
U.S. Congress, "Belford, James Burns," 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.834 Original Sources, accessed July 15, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UTYEYKB58YL4ZCN.
MLA:
U.S. Congress. "Belford, James Burns." 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.834, Original Sources. 15 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UTYEYKB58YL4ZCN.
Harvard:
U.S. Congress, 'Belford, James Burns' 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.834. Original Sources, retrieved 15 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UTYEYKB58YL4ZCN.
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