Bell, John (1796-1869), a prominent American statesman, was the Constitutional Union Party candidate for president in 1860. The party campaigned on the issue of national unity at a time when efforts to limit slavery threatened to drive the Southern States from the Union. Bell carried only the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. See Constitutional Union Party.
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