{{Short description|Canadian politician (1847–1912)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Hon. | name = Adam Carr Bell | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | office = Senator for Pictou, Nova Scotia | term_start = October 23, 1911 | term_end = October 30, 1912 | appointer = Robert Borden | constituency_MP2 = Pictou | parliament2 = Canadian | predecessor2 = Charles Hibbert Tupper | successor2 = Edward Mortimer Macdonald | term_start2 = 1896 | term_end2 = 1904 | office3 = Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for Pictou | term_start3 = 1878 | term_end3 = 1887 | birth_date = {{birth date|1847|11|11}} | birth_place = Pictou, Nova Scotia | death_date = {{death date and age|1912|10|30|1847|11|11}} | death_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada<ref name="johnson">{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 |last=Johnson |first=J.K. |year=1968 |publisher=Public Archives of Canada}}</ref> | spouse = | party = Conservative | other_party = Nova Scotia Conservative | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | cabinet = Provincial Secretary (1882) }} '''Adam Carr Bell''' (November 11, 1847 – October 30, 1912) was a Canadian politician.<ref name="parl">{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=15066|nolist=yes}}</ref>
Born in Pictou, Nova Scotia,<ref name="parl"/> the son of Basil Bell and Mary Carr, Bell was educated in New Glasgow, Sackville Academy, and Glasgow University.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/canadianmenwomen00morguoft The Canadian men and women of the time : a handbook of Canadian biography of living characters]</ref> From 1876 to 1877, he was the first mayor of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia (he was mayor again from 1884 to 1885). He was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1878. In 1882, he was Provincial Secretary in the cabinet of John Thompson. From 1882 to 1887 he was the Conservative Party leader and Leader of the Opposition.<ref name="parl"/>
In 1896, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Pictou. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1900. He was defeated in 1904 and 1911.<ref name="parl"/>
In 1911, he was summoned to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Robert Borden representing the senatorial division of Pictou, Nova Scotia. He died in office the following year in 1912.<ref name="parl"/>
== Electoral history == {{1887 Canadian federal election/Pictou}} {{1896 Canadian federal election/Pictou}} {{1900 Canadian federal election/Pictou}} {{1904 Canadian federal election/Pictou}} {{1911 Canadian federal election/Pictou}}
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{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | before = N/A | title = Leader of the Opposition of the Province of Nova Scotia | years = 1882-1887 | after = William McKay }} {{end}}
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