Charles H. Page

Charles H. Page

Charles Harrison Page (born July 19, 1843 in Glocester , Providence County , Rhode Island , †  July 21, 1912 in Providence , Rhode Island) was an American politician . In 1887 and between 1891 and 1895 he represented the second constituency of the state of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Page attended public schools in his home country. During the Civil War he was a volunteer infantryman from Rhode Island until July 1863. After serving in the military, Page continued his education at Illinois State Normal School in Bloomington and Southern Illinois College in Carbondale . In 1869, Page returned to Rhode Island, where he worked as a teacher in Scituate between 1869 and 1870 . After studying law at the University of Albany in Albany ( New York ), he began to practice in his new profession, first in Scituate and later in Providence.

Page was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1872 and 1873 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Rhode Island , and from 1874 to 1890 he was a member of the State Senate several times with interruptions . In 1876 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US House of Representatives, and in 1879 he ran also unsuccessfully as Attorney General of Rhode Island. In 1880, 1884 and 1888 he was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions . In the congressional elections of 1886 he was defeated by Republican William A. Pirce . However, Page appealed against the outcome of the election, which was ultimately upheld. This resulted in a by-election, which Page won. This enabled him to spend the last two weeks of the current legislative period in Congress between February 21 and March 3, 1887 .

Since he had not been confirmed in the regular congressional elections of 1886, he then had to cede his mandate to Warren O. Arnold . In 1890 Page was re-elected to the US House of Representatives. After a re-election, which had to be repeated because of the very close result, he could remain in Congress between March 4, 1891 and March 3, 1895. There he was chairman of the Committee on Manufactures . In 1894, Page decided not to run again. He withdrew from politics and went back to work as a lawyer.

Web links

• Charles H. Page in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles H. Page in the database of Find a Grave (English)