Clarence D Bell

Sessions

Session	Position	District	Party
1961		9	Republican
1962		9	Republican
1963		9	Republican
1964		9	Republican
1965		9	Republican
1966		9	Republican
1967		9	Republican
1968		9	Republican
1969		9	Republican
1970		9	Republican
1971		9	Republican
1972		9	Republican
1973		9	Republican
1974		9	Republican
1975		9	Republican
1976		9	Republican
1977		9	Republican
1978		9	Republican
1979		9	Republican
1980		9	Republican
1981		9	Republican
1982		9	Republican
1983		9	Republican
1984		9	Republican
1985		9	Republican
1986		9	Republican
1987		9	Republican
1988		9	Republican
1989		9	Republican
1990		9	Republican
1991		9	Republican
1992		9	Republican
1993		9	Republican
1994		9	Republican
1995		9	Republican
1996		9	Republican
1997		9	Republican
1998		9	Republican
1999		9	Republican
2000		9	Republican
2001		9	Republican
2002		9	Republican

Counties	Chester, Delaware

Biography

02/04/1914 - 07/26/2002

Born in Upland, Delaware County, February 4, 1914, the son of Samuel R. and Belle (Hanna) Bell; Senator Clarence Bell graduated from Swarthmore College; Harvard Law School; and U.S. Army command and General Staff College; attorney; Brigadier General, Pennsylvania National Guard; assigned as Asst. Adjutant General; served 30 years in active army, National Guard, and Army Reserve; enlisted as a private in 1935 and served 62 mos. Active duty in WW II; attorney; admitted to county, state, federal bars; National President of the Military Govt. Assoc. 1963; chair of the National Army Affairs Committee, ROA, 1960-1961; elected to the state House of Representatives, 1954-1959; served in the Senate of Pennsylvania, 1960 until his death as the longest serving state senator in Pennsylvania history, July 26, 2002.