Bell, Hiram P
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1827, in Jackson, Ga. He graduated from the Academy of Cumming, Ga., where he has attained a reputation as one of the leading lawyers of the south. In 1861 he was a delegate to the secession convention ; was a state senator the same year, and resigned to enter the confederate army in 1862. He raised a company, of which he was elected captain. He was dangerously wounded at Chickasaw bayou; and attained the rank of colonel. He was a representative from Georgia in the second confederate congress in 1864-65; and was elected a representative from his state to the forty-third and forty-fifth congresses of the United States as a democrat. He has been a trustee of four colleges, and also of the Methodist Orphans' home; and has taken an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.