Charles Delano

Charles Delano (born June 24, 1820 in New Braintree , Worcester County , Massachusetts , † January 23, 1883 in Northampton , Massachusetts) was an American politician . Between 1859 and 1863 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1833 Charles Delano came to Amherst with his parents , where he attended public schools and then Amherst College until 1840 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1842, he began to work in this profession in Amherst. In 1848 he moved his residence and law firm to Northampton. Between 1849 and 1858 he was a chamberlain in the local Hampshire County . Politically, he joined the Republican Party founded in 1854 .

In the congressional election of 1858 , Delano was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Calvin C. Chaffee on March 4, 1859 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1863 . These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the civil war and, since 1861, by the war itself. In 1862 he decided not to run again for Congress.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Charles Delano practiced again as a lawyer. Between 1877 and 1883 he was the curator of the Clark School for the Education of the Deaf , a school for the hearing impaired. He was also appointed Special Envoy for the Hoosac Tunnel and the Troy and Greenfield Railroad by the Massachusetts State Government in 1878 . He died on January 23, 1883 in Northampton, where he was also buried.

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SURNAME	Delano, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	June 24, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Braintree , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH	January 23, 1883
Place of death	Northampton , Massachusetts