Joseph Bellinger | |
Birth Place: | Colleton County, Province of South Carolina, British America |
Death Place: | Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. |
Resting Place: | Ashepoo, South Carolina |
State: | South Carolina |
District: | 4th |
Term Start: | March 4, 1817 |
Term End: | March 3, 1819 |
Predecessor: | John J. Chappell |
Successor: | James Overstreet |
Office2: | Member of the South Carolina Senate from Barnwell District |
Term2: | November 26, 1810 - December 24, 1813 |
Office3: | Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Barnwell District |
Term3: | November 24, 1806 - December 19, 1809 |
Office4: | Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from St. Luke's Parish |
Term4: | November 22, 1802 - December 19, 1805 |
Profession: | planter |
Party: | Democratic-Republican |
Joseph Bellinger (1773January 10, 1830) was a slave owner and U.S. Representative from South Carolina. He was born at the Bellinger Plantation in Saint Bartholomew Parish, Ashepoo in Colleton County in the Province of South Carolina and was a planter by trade. He owned the "Aeolian Lawn" slave plantation.
He served as member of the State house of representatives from 1802 to 1809 and of the State senate from Barnwell District from 1810 to 1813. Bellinger was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819). He was not a candidate for reelection to the Sixteenth Congress.
He died at Charleston, South Carolina, on January 10, 1830, aged around 56 years old. He was interred in the Bellinger private burial ground, Poco Sabo Plantation, Ashepoo, South Carolina.