Charles W. Bell
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Charles Webster Bell (June 11, 1857 - April 19, 1927) was a U.S. Representative from California.
Born in Albany, New York, Bell attended public schools. He moved to California in 1877 and settled in Pasadena, Los Angeles County. He engaged in fruit growing and the real estate business, and was a county clerk of Los Angeles County from 1899 to 1903. He served as member of the state senate from 1907 to 1912.
Bell was elected as a Progressive Republican to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress, and resumed his former business pursuits in Pasadena, California, where he served as secretary of the Pasadena Mercantile Finance Corporation.
Bell died in Pasadena, California, on April 19, 1927, and was interred in Mountain View Cemetery.
