Charles Cyrus Kearns

Charles Cyrus Kearns (1916)

Charles Cyrus Kearns (born February 11, 1869 in Tonica , LaSalle County , Illinois , †  December 17, 1931 in Amelia , Ohio ) was an American politician . Between 1915 and 1931 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1874, Charles Kearns moved with his parents to Georgetown , Ohio, where he attended public schools. He then graduated from Northern College in Ada and Lebanon College , also in Ohio. For some time he was a teacher in Brown County . After studying law at the Cincinnati Law School and being admitted to the bar in 1894, he began to work in this profession in Batavia . Between 1900 and 1902 he left Ohio, first in Las Vegas in what would later become the state of New Mexico and then in Hot Springs ( Arkansas ) to run some newspapers. In 1903 he returned to Batavia, where he practiced as a lawyer again. From 1906 to 1909 he was a district attorney in Clermont County . Politically, he joined the Republican Party .

In the 1914 congressional elections , Kearns was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded Simeon D. Fess on March 4, 1915 . After seven re-elections, he was able to complete eight legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1931 . During this time the First World War fell . In addition, the 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution were ratified in 1919 and 1920 . It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage .

In 1930, Charles Kearns was not re-elected. After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer in Cincinnati . He died in Amelia on December 17, 1931.

Web links

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• Charles Cyrus Kearns in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles Cyrus Kearns in the database of Find a Grave (English)