Charles Brooks Smith

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Charles Brooks Smith (born February 24, 1844 in Elizabeth , Wirt County , Virginia , † December 7, 1899 in Parkersburg , West Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1890 and 1891 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Smith was born in 1844 in Elizabeth, which at that time still belonged to Virginia, but has been in the newly founded state of West Virginia since 1863. He received private schooling in Parkersburg. Since March 1, 1864, he took part in the civil war as a soldier in the Union Army . There he achieved the rank of lieutenant until his honorable discharge from military service. After the war, Smith started trading. Politically, he joined the Republican Party . In 1875 he was employed by the Wood County administration as a registrar ( recorder ). A year later he was a member of Parkersburg City Council and between 1878 and 1880 he was mayor of that city. From 1880 to 1884 he served as sheriff and chamberlain in Wood County. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Benjamin Harrison was nominated as a Republican presidential candidate.

In 1888 Smith ran for the US House of Representatives in Washington . He was subject to the Democrat James M. Jackson , who took up his mandate in Congress on March 4, 1889. Smith appealed against the election result. After this objection was granted, he was able to take over the mandate from Jackson on February 3, 1890 and end the current legislative period until March 3, 1891 as a congressman. In the regular elections of 1890 Smith was defeated by the Democratic candidate James Capehart .

After his tenure in Congress, Smith entered the insurance industry. He specialized in fire insurance. He died on December 7, 1899 in Parkersburg and was buried there.

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SURNAME Smith, Charles Brooks
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Elizabeth , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1899
Place of death Parkersburg , West Virginia