Charles H. Larrabee

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Charles H. Larrabee

Charles Hathaway Larrabee (born November 9, 1820 in Rome , New York , †  January 20, 1883 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American officer , lawyer and politician . Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Larrabee moved to Ohio with his father when he was still a child . There he later attended Granville College , from which today's Denison University emerged . Then he studied engineering. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1841, he began to work in his new profession in Pontotoc ( Mississippi ). In 1847 Larrabee moved to Chicago , Illinois , where he also practiced as a lawyer. In 1846 and 1847 he was the city's legal representative. In 1847 he moved his residence and office to Horicon , Wisconsin Territory . In the same year he was a delegate to the constituent assembly of the future state of Wisconsin. Between 1848 and 1858 Larrabee served first as a judge in the third judicial district and later on the Wisconsin Supreme Court .

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1858 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded Charles Billinghurst on March 4, 1859 . Since he was not confirmed in the elections of 1860 , he could only complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1861 . This was shaped by the tensions in the immediate run-up to the civil war . In the last few weeks of this legislature, Larrabee witnessed the exodus of the Southerners from Congress.

During the civil war that followed, Larrabee served as an officer in the Union Army between 1861 and 1863 . He rose to the rank of colonel. He took part in several battles and then had to give up military service in 1863 for health reasons. In 1864 he moved to San Bernardino , California. He worked as a lawyer there as well as temporarily in Salem ( Oregon ) and Seattle ( Washington ). He died on January 20, 1883 in Los Angeles as a result of a train accident. Charles Larrabee was buried in San Francisco .

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SURNAME Larrabee, Charles H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Larrabee, Charles Hathaway (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American officer, lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , New York
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1883
Place of death Los Angeles , California