- John Dillard Bellamy
John Dillard Bellamy (
24 March 1854 -25 September 1942 ) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman fromNorth Carolina between 1899 and 1903.Born in
Wilmington, North Carolina , Bellamy attended local common schools, theCape Fear Military Academy ,Davidson College , graduating in 1873, and finally theUniversity of Virginia at Charlottesville , graduating in 1875. He was admitted to the bar in 1875 and practiced law in Wilmington, where he was city attorney from 1892 to 1894.First elected to the
North Carolina Senate in 1900, he served one term before being elected as a Democrat to the56th United States Congress ; he was re-elected once more, serving until 1903, and was unsuccessful in gaining a third term. Bellamy was also a delegate to the 1892, 1908, and 1920Democratic National Convention s.After leaving Congress, he returned to his law practice in Wilmington. Among his clients were the
Seaboard Air Line Railway , theSouthern Bell Telephone Co., and theWestern Union Telegraph Co. In 1932, Governor Angus McLean appointed him a commissioner from North Carolina to the celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington. Bellamy died in Wilmington in 1942.
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