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James H. Bell

American judge (1825–1892)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ90110963 ↗
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James Hall Bell (January 21, 1825 – March 13, 1892) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas from October 1858 to August 1864).

Biography

James Hall Bell was born in West Columbia, Texas on January 2, 1825. He graduated from Centre College and Harvard Law School.

He died in Austin in March 1892.

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This entry incorporates text from “James H. Bell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.