James Martin Bell

James Martin Bell was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a United States [House of Representatives|U.S. representative] from Ohio from 1833 to 1835.

Biography

Born in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, Bell attended the public schools.
He studied law in Steubenville, Ohio.
He was Admission to [the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar] in 1817 and commenced practice in Cambridge, Ohio.
He served as major general of the Fifteenth Division, Ohio Militia.
He served as prosecuting attorney of Guernsey County 1818–1832.
He served as member of the State house of representatives 1826–1831, serving as speaker in 1830 and 1831.
He served as master commissioner in 1827.
He was in the Justice of the Peace in 1830.
County school examiner in 1830.

Congress

Bell was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the 23rd [United States Congress|Twenty-third] Congress.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress.

Career after Congress

He resumed the practice of law.
He served as mayor of Cambridge from 1838 to 1840.

Death

He died in Cambridge, Ohio, on April 4, 1849.
He was interred in Founders' Burial Ground.