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Hon. John Bell, Secretary of War, 1841 Vintage Fine Art President of the United StatesHon. John Bell, Secretary of War, 1841. A portrait of the Tennessee Whig at the moment William Henry Harrison's cabinet briefly seated him atop the War Department a tenure measured in weeks before Tyler's apostasy scattered the appointees, leaving Bell's brief command preserved here in the formal hand of antebellum political engraving. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the