Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . oval to Chester, JudgeBells health was seriously impaired, and bythe advice of friends he spent two seasons intravel on horseljack in Ohio, then the farwest. Having sul)stantially recovered he re-sumed practice in Chester, and in 1813 was amember of the executive council. In 1816 hewas commissioned ajustice of the New Hamp-shire Superior Court and served three years. and in 1819 was elected governor of the was tiu-ee times re-eelected to the governor-
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . oval to Chester, JudgeBells health was seriously impaired, and bythe advice of friends he spent two seasons intravel on horseljack in Ohio, then the farwest. Having sul)stantially recovered he re-sumed practice in Chester, and in 1813 was amember of the executive council. In 1816 hewas commissioned ajustice of the New Hamp-shire Superior Court and served three years. and in 1819 was elected governor of the was tiu-ee times re-eelected to the governor-ship, and received at his last election nearlytwenty-three thousand votes against a littlemore than one thousand cast for all the oppos-ing candidates. At the end of his guberna-torial service in 1823 he was elected to theUnited States senate and at the expiration ofhis first term, in 1829, was re-elected, .servingin all twelve years. In 1835 he retired fromboth political and professional pursuits. The retention of Judge Bell for nearly thirtyyears in such res[)onsiLile public positions,when he was neither a popularity seeker nor. SAMUEL BKLL. a })olitical manager, is evidence that he pos-sessed unconnnon al)ility and the entire con-fidence of the community. He was a soundlawyer, a wise counsellor, and a man of greatmental power, carefidly cultivated and thor-oughly disciplined. Tliough lacking Huencyof speech, he was noted for his vigorous andforceful reasoning, for his attention to duty,and for his courteous, decided, and dignifiedbearing. Jeremiah Mason .said the SuperiorCourt would its backbone when it wasproposed to make Judge Bell governor of NewHampshire, while John M. Shiiley described 68 THE JUDICIARY AND THE BAR OF NEW ENGLAND. him as a man of immense eruditidii amigreat Ijusiness capacity, a tliorougii lawyer,and possessed of great moral courage. Andthe late Charles II. Bell stated tiiat his pub-lished judicial opinions in the early volumesof the State Reports
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