Charles B. Sedgwick

Charles Baldwin Sedgwick (born March 15, 1815 in Pompey , New York , † February 3, 1883 in Syracuse , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1859 and 1863 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Baldwin Sedgwick was born in Onondaga County during the final year of the British-American War . He attended Pompey Hill Academy and Hamilton College in Clinton . Sedgwick was studying law . After receiving his license to practice bar in 1848, he began practicing in Syracuse. His student days were overshadowed by the Mexican-American War . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1858 for the 36th Congress Sedgwick was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 24th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Amos P. Granger on March 4, 1859 . He was re-elected once. In his renewed re-election in 1862 he suffered a defeat and then left the Congress after March 3, 1863 . His last term in office was overshadowed by the civil war. He also chaired the Committee on Naval Affairs during this time . After his time in Congress, he spent the next two years codifying the Navy laws for the United States Department of the Navy in Washington DC. He then went back to Syracuse as a lawyer, where he died on February 3, 1883. His body was then interred in Oakwood Cemetery .

Web links

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

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