Charles B. Law

Charles Blakeslee Law (born February 5, 1872 in Hannibal , New York , † September 15, 1929 in Kattskill Bay , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1905 and 1911 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Blakeslee Law was born in Hannibal about six and a half years after the end of the Civil War . He attended public schools there and graduated from Colgate Academy in 1891 . Then he went to Amherst College in Massachusetts , where he graduated in 1895. He then studied in Rome and at the Cornell Law School in Ithaca Jura . He was admitted to the bar in Rochester in 1897 . The following year he moved to Brooklyn where he worked as a lawyer.

Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1904 , Law was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Frank E. Wilson on March 4, 1905 . He was re-elected twice in a row. In 1910 he suffered a defeat in its third re-election bid and was eliminated from the after March 3, 1911 Congress of. As a congressman, he chaired the Committee on War Claims ( 61st Congress ).

He then resumed his practice as a lawyer in Brooklyn. He was Kings County Sheriff in 1912 and 1913 . Law was from January 1, 1916 to January 1, 1926 judge at the municipal court of New York City. He then returned to Brooklyn as a lawyer and pursued banking. He died of a myocardial infarction on September 15, 1929 when he went swimming at his summer home in Kattskill Bay near Lake George at midnight . His body was interred in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Jordan , the hometown of his wife Ilma Best (1875–1940).

Web links

• Charles B. Law in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles B. Law in the database of Find a Grave (English)