{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} <!-- This article was automatically created by User:polbot from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000350. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --> {{Infobox officeholder | name = Joseph Bellinger | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year|1773}} | birth_place = Colleton County, Province of South Carolina, British America | death_date = {{death date and age|1830|1|10|1773}} | death_place = Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. |resting_place = Ashepoo, South Carolina | state = South Carolina | district = 4th | term_start = March 4, 1817 | term_end = March 3, 1819 | predecessor = John J. Chappell | successor = James Overstreet |office2 = Member of the South Carolina Senate from Barnwell District |term2 = November 26, 1810 – December 24, 1813 |office3 = Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Barnwell District |term3 = November 24, 1806 – December 19, 1809 |office4 = Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from St. Luke's Parish |term4 = November 22, 1802 – December 19, 1805 |alma_mater = |profession = planter |party = Democratic-Republican }} '''Joseph Bellinger''' (1773{{spnd}}January 10, 1830) was a slave owner<ref>{{Citation|title=Congress slaveowners|date=2022-01-27|url=https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-congress-slaveowners|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2022-01-30}}</ref> and U.S. Representative from South Carolina. He was born at the Bellinger Plantation in Saint Bartholomew Parish, Ashepoo in Colleton County in the Province of South Carolina and was a planter by trade. He owned the "Aeolian Lawn" slave plantation.
He served as member of the State house of representatives from 1802 to 1809 and of the State senate from Barnwell District from 1810 to 1813. 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.
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