Joseph McCum Belford (August 5, 1852 – May 3, 1917) was an American politician and a United States Representative from New York.

[1] He was not a candidate for renomination in 1898 to the 56th Congress and in 1900 was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

Resuming the practice of law in Riverhead (town), New York, Belford also engaged in banking.

Belford died suddenly at Grand Central Station in Manhattan on May 3, 1917.

[2] State Senator Edward Hawkins (1829–1908) was his father-in-law; Congressman James Burns Belford (1837–1910) of Colorado was his cousin.