Charles Webster Bell

Progressive Republican Representative of California's 9th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

June 11, 1857 (69 years old)

Birthday

April 19, 1927

Death

Served one term as a U.S. Representative from California from 1913 to 1915.
Engaged in fruit growing and real estate business after moving to California in 1877.
Held the position of county clerk of Los Angeles County from 1899 to 1903.
Served in the California State Senate from 1907 to 1913, including a term as Majority Leader in 1911.
Authored legislation that granted women the right to vote in California.
Elected as a Progressive Republican to the Sixty-third Congress.
Lost re-election to a candidate from the Prohibition Party.
After his political career, returned to business and became secretary of the Pasadena Mercantile Finance Corporation.
Died in Pasadena, California, in 1927 and is interred in Mountain View Cemetery.