Background
Bellinger, Joseph was born in 1773 in Bellinger Plantation in Saint Bartholomew Parish, Ashepoo, Colleton County, South Carolina, United States.
Bellinger, Joseph was born in 1773 in Bellinger Plantation in Saint Bartholomew Parish, Ashepoo, Colleton County, South Carolina, United States.
He owned the “Aeolian Lawn” plantation. Bellinger was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819). He was not a candidate for reelection to the Sixteenth Congress.
He died at Charleston, South Carolina on January 10, 1830, aged around 56 years old.
He was interred in the Bellinger private burial ground, Poco Sabo Plantation, Ashepoo, South Carolina.
Member of the South Carolina. State house of representatives 1802-1809 and of the State senate from Barnwell District 1810-1813. Member United States House