Charles A. Stevens

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Charles A. Stevens

Charles Abbott Stevens (born August 9, 1816 in North Andover , Essex County , Massachusetts , †  April 7, 1892 in New York City ) was an American politician . In 1875 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives for 28 days .

Career

Charles Stevens was the older brother of Congressman Moses T. Stevens (1825-1907) and a cousin of Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862), who was Congress delegate and first governor of the Washington Territory . He attended the Franklin Academy and then started working in the clothing industry in Ware from 1841 . In 1853 he became a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives . Stevens became a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854 . In the years 1860 and 1868 he took part as a delegate at the respective Republican National Conventions , at which Abraham Lincoln and later Ulysses S. Grant were nominated as presidential candidates. Between 1867 and 1870 he was also a member of the governor's advisory board. In 1874 he ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives.

After the death of MP Alvah Crocker , Stevens was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when the by-election was due for the tenth seat of Massachusetts , where he took up his new mandate on January 27, 1875. By March 3, 1875 he was able to end the current legislative period in Congress . After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Stevens resumed his previous work in the clothing industry. He died on April 7, 1892 in New York and was buried in Ware.

Web links

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