James Burns Belford was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Colorado.
Frontispiece of 1897's The Writings and Speeches of Hon. James B. Belford.
44th United States Congress
The 44th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1875, to March 4, 1877, during the seventh and eighth years of Ulysses S. Grant's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1870 United States census. For the first time since the American Civil War, the House had a Democratic majority. The Senate maintained a Republican majority.
United States Capitol (1877)
A political cartoon by Joseph Keppler depicts Roscoe Conkling as Mephistopheles, as Rutherford B. Hayes strolls off with a woman labeled as "Solid South"
President of the Senate Henry Wilson
President pro tempore Thomas W. Ferry