Charles J. Albright

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Charles J. Albright (before 1883)

Charles Jefferson Albright (born May 9, 1816 in Carlisle , Pennsylvania , †  October 21, 1883 in Cambridge , Ohio ) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1824, Charles Albright moved to Allegheny County with his parents . He received limited schooling and worked for some time in a shop that sold harnesses for horse and carts and then in a regular grocery store. He then completed an apprenticeship in the printing trade. In 1832 he moved to a farm near Cambridge, Ohio. In the years 1840 to 1845 and from 1848 to 1855 he published the Guernsey Times newspaper, which he owned . Between 1841 and 1844 he served as secretary of the school audit committee in Guernsey County ( Board of School Examiners ). Politically, he was initially a member of the short-lived opposition party . However, he soon joined the Republican Party founded in 1854 .

In the congressional elections of 1854 Albright was still elected as a candidate for the opposition party in the 17th  electoral district of Ohio in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Wilson Shannon on March 4, 1855 . Since he was not confirmed in 1856, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1857 . This was shaped by the events leading up to the civil war .

In 1855, Charles Albright was Vice President of the Ohio Regional Republican Convention; in the years 1856 and 1860 he took part as a delegate at the respective Republican National Conventions , at which John C. Frémont and Abraham Lincoln were nominated as presidential candidates. During the Civil War he was Chairman of the Military Committee in Guernsey County. From 1862 to 1869 he headed the 16th Federal Financial District for Ohio. In 1873 he was a delegate to a constitutional convention of his state; in 1875 he was a member of the Ohio Welfare Committee. His last public office was that of chairman of the Cambridge Union School's school audit committee . He held this post between 1881 and 1883. He died on October 21, 1883 in Cambridge, where he was also buried.

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SURNAME Albright, Charles J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albright, Charles Jefferson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlisle , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1883
Place of death Cambridge , Ohio