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Belden, James Jerome

business man, banker, congressman, was born Sept. 30, 1825, in Fabius, N. Y. He is a charter member of the order of the Founders and Patriots of America, and has been elected councilor-general by the societies of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. He has been extensively engaged in business pursuits for forty years, having been largely interested in and director of several national banks; is president and principal owner of the Robert Gere bank of Syracuse, which he founded, and has been trustee of the Syracuse university since it was founded. He was elected mayor of Syracuse in 1877, and re-elected gate to the republican national convenin 1878 without opposition; was a deletion at Chicago in 1880; and was elected as a republican to the fiftieth, fiftyfirst, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fifth congresses.