Charles I. Stengle

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Charles I. Stengle in 1922

Charles Irwin Stengle (born December 5, 1869 in Savageville , Virginia , † November 23, 1953 in Shaftos Corner , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1925 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Irwin Stengle was born in Savageville about three years after the Civil War ended. He attended public schools. In 1890 he graduated from Goldey College (now Goldey – Beacom College ) in Wilmington ( Delaware ). Stengle served in the Delaware House of Representatives in 1898 . Between 1910 and 1917 he worked as a newspaper in Norfolk and Fredericksburg (Virginia) and New York City . On January 1, 1918, he became Secretary of the Municipal Civil Service Commission in New York City - a position he held until his resignation on January 1, 1923. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the 1922 congressional elections , Stengle was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Frederick W. Rowe on March 4, 1923 . Since he on a run again in 1924 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1925 Congress of.

President Calvin Coolidge appointed him Lieutenant Colonel in the Specialist Reserves in 1925 , which reports to the Adjutant General's Office . Stengle was an editor for the National Farm News . He also served as the legislative representative of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) from 1934 until his retirement in August 1953 . He died on November 23, 1953 in Shaftos Corner and was then buried in Monmouth Memorial Park .

Web links

  • Charles I. Stengle in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Remarks

  1. The American Federation of Government Employees is an American union that represents over 650,000 federal government employees, over 5,000 District of Columbia employees and several hundred private sector employees, most of whom work in and around federal institutions.