John Bell Biography

John Bell was born February 15, 1797 in a town near Nashville, Tenessee. John Bell entered the U.S. House of Representatives in 1827 and served there as a Democrat until 1841. After years of much political envolvement, he was elected as U.S. Senator for Tenessee in 1847. He served for the senate until 1859. John Bell supported slavery but did not agree with the idea of expanding it. He was a democrat and ran for president soon after, with his candidates being Lincoln, Breckenridge, and Douglas. He voted against the compromise of 1850 and was against everything that President James Knox was involved with. He soon then went into retirement during Lincolns presidency and in his call for troops, Bell found himself going into retirement in Georgia, in 1865.