Charles H. Porter

Charles H. Porter

Charles Howell Porter (born June 21, 1833 in Cairo , Greene County , New York , †  July 9, 1897 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1870 and 1873 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Porter attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree at Law University in Albany and his admission to the bar in 1854, he began to work in Ashland in this profession. During the civil war he served in the Union army . During the war he settled in Norfolk (Virginia). For a year he became the city's legal representative. Between 1863 and 1868 he served as a public prosecutor. From 1867 Porter lived in Richmond . During this time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1867 and 1868 he was a delegate to the Assembly to Revise the Virginia Constitution.

After the re-admission of Virginia to the Union, Porter was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Virginia , where he took up his new mandate on January 26, 1870. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1873 . In 1872 Porter renounced another candidacy. He subsequently returned to his home state, where he practiced as a lawyer in New York City and Beacon . He died on July 9, 1897 in his birthplace Cairo, where he was also buried.

Web links

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

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