Charles J. Gilman

Charles J. Gilman (1859)

Charles Jervis Gilman (born February 26, 1824 in Exeter , New Hampshire , † February 5, 1901 in Brunswick , Maine ) was an American politician . From 1857 to 1859 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Gilman enjoyed a good education and studied at the Phillips Exeter Academy in his native Exeter. After a subsequent law degree at Harvard University and his admission as a lawyer in 1850, he began to work in Exeter in his new profession. Politically, he was a member of the Whig Party . Gilman was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1851 and 1852 . He then moved his residence and law firm to Brunswick, Maine. There, too, he became politically active. In 1854 and 1855 he was a member of the House of Representatives of that state. In Maine, he was also a member of the Whigs regional board. After these disbanded in the mid-1850s, Gilman became a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854 .

In 1856 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC as their candidate in the second constituency of Maine . There he took over on March 4, 1857, succeeding John J. Perry , who was no longer running. Since Gilman himself renounced another candidacy in 1858, he could only complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1859 . This was shaped by the discussions leading up to the civil war . After his departure from Congress, his mandate fell back to his predecessor John Perry, who had now also become a member of the Republicans. In 1860 Gilman was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Abraham Lincoln was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the following decades he withdrew from politics. He took care of problems of the water supply and other public facilities. Charles Gilman died on February 5, 1901 in Brunswick and was buried there.

He was a great-nephew of John Taylor Gilman (1753-1828), the delegate to the Continental Congress and governor of New Hampshire. Another great uncle of Charles Gilman was Nicholas Gilman (1755-1814), who first represented the state of New Hampshire in the Continental Congress and then between 1789 and 1814 in both chambers of Congress.

Web links

• Charles J. Gilman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles J. Gilman in the database of Find a Grave (English)