Charles Laban Abernethy

Charles Laban Abernethy (1925)

Charles Laban Abernethy (born March 18, 1872 in Burke County , North Carolina , †  February 23, 1955 in New Bern , North Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1922 and 1935 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Abernethy attended his home public schools, Mount Olive High School and Rutherford College . In 1895 he moved to Beaufort , where he founded the Beaufort Herald newspaper. After a subsequent law degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his admission as a lawyer in 1895, he began to work in Beaufort in this profession. He was a prosecutor in the third and fifth judicial districts of his state for twelve years.

Politically, Abernethy was a member of the Democratic Party . From 1898 to 1900 he was a member of the board of directors at the state level. In 1913 he moved to New Bern, where he practiced as a lawyer. After the death of MP Samuel M. Brinson , Abernethy was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election due for the third seat of North Carolina , where he took up his new mandate on November 7, 1922. After six re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1935 . Since 1929 the work of the congress has also been shaped by the world economic crisis. In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified. Since 1933, the first New Deal laws of the federal government were passed in Congress under President Franklin D. Roosevelt .

In 1934 Charles Abernethy was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. In the following years until 1938 he worked as a lawyer again; then he retired. He died on February 23, 1955 in New Bern, where he was also buried.

Web links

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• Charles Laban Abernethy in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles Laban Abernethy in the database of Find a Grave (English)