Charles A. Chickering

Charles A. Chickering

Charles Addison Chickering (born November 26, 1843 in Harrisburg , New York , † February 13, 1900 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1900 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Addison Chickering was born in Lewis County about three years before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War . He attended community schools and the Lowville Academy , where he taught as a teacher for some time. After that he sold household goods. This time was overshadowed by the civil war. Between 1865 and 1875 he was school inspector at the Lewis Conty. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1879 to 1881 , where he worked as a clerk between 1884 and 1890 . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . He chaired the Lewis County Republican Committee . He also sat on the Republican State Committee , where he served as Secretary and was a member of its Executive Committee . In the congressional election of 1892 for the 53rd Congress , Chickering was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 24th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded George Van Horn on March 4, 1893 . He was re-elected three times in a row, but died before the end of his last term on February 13, 1900 of the consequences of his injuries sustained when he fell from a window of the Grand Union Hotel in New York City while on one Business trip was. During his time in Congress he chaired the Committee on Railways and Canals ( 54th to 56th Congress ). His body was buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Copenhagen .

Web links

• Charles A. Chickering in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles A. Chickering in the database of Find a Grave (English)