Charles H. Prince

Charles Henry Prince (born May 9, 1837 in Buckfield , Oxford County , Maine , †  April 3, 1912 ibid) was an American politician . In 1868 and 1869 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Prince attended public schools in his home country and then went into commerce. In 1861 he was a postman in his hometown. In 1862 and 1863 he took part in the civil war as captain of an infantry unit on the Union side . After the war he settled in Augusta (Georgia) in 1866 , where he was employed as a cashier at a bank. There he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Prince became state commissioner for education and served in a congregation revising the Georgia Constitution in 1867.

After Georgia was re-admitted to the Union, Prince was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of the state , where he took up his new mandate on July 25, 1868. Prince was re-elected in the 1868 regular congressional election. However, the Congress denied him, like many other MPs elected in 1868 from Georgia and the other southern states , his seat. This meant that he could only end the current legislative period there until March 3, 1869. After a by-election, his mandate fell to the Democrat Stephen A. Corker .

Between 1870 and 1882, Prince was the post office owner in Augusta. In 1872, 1876 and 1880 he was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions , on which Ulysses S. Grant , Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield were nominated as presidential candidates. In 1882 Prince returned to his native Buckfield, where he worked in commerce and the insurance industry. He also made brooms and brushes. In 1901, Prince was elected to the Maine Senate. He died on April 3, 1912 in Buckfield, where he was also buried.

Web links

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

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