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American politician
Charles Jasper Bell
(January 16, 1885 ? January 21, 1978) was a
U.S. Representative
from
Missouri
.
Born in
Lake City, Colorado
, Bell attended the country schools in
Jackson County, Missouri
, Lees Summit (Missouri) High School, and the
University of Missouri
. He graduated from the Kansas City School of Law in 1913 and was admitted to the bar the same year, commencing to practice in
Kansas City, Missouri
. He served as a member of the city council of Kansas City from 1926 to 1930 and as a member of the committee to draft the administrative code, which the current general law of
Kansas City, Missouri
, is based on. Additionally, he served as judge of the circuit court of
Jackson County, Missouri
, from 1931 until his resignation in 1934.
Bell was elected as a
Democrat
to the
seventy-fourth
through
Eightieth Congresses
, serving from January 3, 1935, to January 3, 1949. He served as chairman of the Committee on Elections No. 1 during the
Seventy-sixth
and
Seventy-seventh
Congresses, and of the Committee on Insular Affairs in the
Seventy-eighth
and
Seventy-ninth Congresses
. Bell also served as a member of the Filipino Rehabilitation Commission in 1945 and 1946. He did not run for reelection in 1948 to the
Eighty-first Congress
, and resumed the practice of law, specifically managing private investments.
He died in
Kansas City, Missouri
, on January 21, 1978. He was interred in Blue Springs Cemetery,
Blue Springs, Missouri
.
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