Adam Carr Bell Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Hon.
Adam Carr Bell
Office:Senator for Pictou, Nova Scotia
Term Start:October 23, 1911
Term End:October 30, 1912
Appointed:Robert Borden
Constituency Mp2:Pictou
Parliament2:Canadian
Predecessor2:Charles Hibbert Tupper
Successor2:Edward Mortimer Macdonald
Term Start2:1896
Term End2:1904
Office3:Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for Pictou
Term Start3:1878
Term End3:1887
Birth Date:11 November 1847
Birth Place:Pictou, Nova Scotia
Death Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada[1]
Party:Conservative
Otherparty:Nova Scotia Conservative
Cabinet:Provincial Secretary (1882)

Adam Carr Bell (November 11, 1847  - October 30, 1912) was a Canadian politician.

Born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, the son of Basil Bell and Mary Carr, Bell was educated in New Glasgow, Sackville Academy, and Glasgow University.[2] From 1876 to 1877, he was the first mayor of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia (he was mayor again from 1884 to 1885). He was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1878. In 1882, he was Provincial Secretary in the cabinet of John Thompson. From 1882 to 1887 he was the Conservative Party leader and Leader of the Opposition.

In 1896, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Pictou. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1900. He was defeated in 1904 and 1911.

In 1911, he was summoned to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Robert Borden representing the senatorial division of Pictou, Nova Scotia. He died in office the following year in 1912.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Johnson, J.K. . The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 . 1968 . Public Archives of Canada.
  2. https://archive.org/details/canadianmenwomen00morguoft The Canadian men and women of the time : a handbook of Canadian biography of living characters