district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place party term_end preceded birth_date term_start article_title state name alma_mater
4th leonard irving 21 january 1978 kansas city , missouri lake city , colorado democratic party january 3 , 1949 vacant 16 january 1885 january 3 , 1935 c. jasper bell
 missouri c. jasper bell university of missouri kansas city school of law
c. jasper bell

charles jasper bell -lrb- january 16 , 1885 -- january 21 , 1978 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from missouri .
born in lake city , colorado , bell attended the country schools in jackson county , missouri , lees summit -lrb- missouri -rrb- high school , and the university of missouri .
he graduated from the kansas city school of law in 1913 and was admitted to the bar the same year , commencing to practice in kansas city , missouri .
he served as a member of the city council of kansas city from 1926 to 1930 and as a member of the committee to draft the administrative code , which the current general law of kansas city , missouri is based on .
additionally , he served as judge of the circuit court of jackson county , missouri from 1931 until his resignation in 1934 .
bell was elected as a democrat to the seventy-fourth through eightieth congresses , serving from january 3 , 1935 to january 3 , 1949 -rrb- .
he served as chairman of the committee on elections no. 1 during the seventy-sixth and seventy-seventh congresses , and of the committee on insular affairs in the seventy-eighth and seventy-ninth congresses .
bell also served as a member of the filipino rehabilitation commission in 1945 and 1946 .
he did not run for reelection in 1948 to the eighty-first congress , and resumed the practice of law , specifically managing private investments .
he died in kansas city , missouri , on january 21 , 1978 .
he was interred in blue springs cemetery , blue springs , missouri .
