Hiram Parks Bell
Hiram Parks Bell was a U.S. Representative and a Confederate Representative from the state of Georgia.
Bell was born in 1827 near Jefferson, Georgia. He taught school for two years, studied law, was admitted to the Georgia bar later in 1849 and became a practicing lawyer in Cumming, Georgia. Bell was a member of the Georgia secession convention, voting against secession as imprudent, but then signing the Ordinance of Secession. He believed that the Northern States were astonished that the Southern States would secede the Southern people were surprised that the government would attempt to hold the States together by force. Hearing that Georgia must grasp in fraternity the bloody hand of Massachusetts, or align yourselves with gallant South Carolina shook his views on the need to secede. He served as a Georgia commissioner to work with the state of Tennessee in the formation of a southern confederacy.
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