Charles Creighton Carlin

Charles Creighton Carlin (1920)

Charles Creighton Carlin (born April 8, 1866 in Alexandria , Virginia , †  October 14, 1938 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1907 and 1919 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Carlin attended the public schools in his home country as well as the Alexandria Academy . After a subsequent law degree at the National University in Washington and his admission as a lawyer in 1891, he began to work in Alexandria in this profession. From 1893 to 1897 he was also a postman in his native town. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . For 40 years he was a delegate to all Democratic National Conventions .

After the death of MP John Franklin Rixey , Carlin was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington at the by-election due for the eighth seat of Virginia, where he took up his new mandate on November 5, 1907. After six re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on March 3, 1919 . He had also been elected to another term in November 1918, which began on March 4, 1919. But Carlin resigned at the end of the previous legislative period on March 3, 1919 and renounced the further exercise of his mandate. During his time as a congressman, the First World War and the ratification of the 16th and 17th amendments to the constitution took place .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Charles Carlin practiced as a lawyer in Alexandria and Washington. In Alexandria he also got into the newspaper business. From 1936 he lived in the federal capital Washington, where he died on October 14, 1938.

Web links

• Charles Creighton Carlin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles Creighton Carlin in the database of Find a Grave (English)