Charles Manly Stedman

Charles Manly Stedman (to the left of the table) accepts congratulations from Speaker Nicholas Longworth on his 85th birthday .

Charles Manly Stedman (born January 29, 1841 in Pittsboro , Chatham County , North Carolina , †  September 23, 1930 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1930 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1853, Charles Stedman came to Fayetteville with his parents . He attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1861 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . During the civil war he served in the Confederation Army , where he made it to major. After the war he taught as a teacher in Pittsboro for a year. After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began working in this profession in Wilmington in 1867 .

Politically, Stedman was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1880 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati , where Winfield Scott Hancock was nominated as a presidential candidate. Between 1884 and 1888 he served as lieutenant governor of North Carolina. In the years 1888 and 1903 he sought unsuccessfully to nominate his party for the gubernatorial elections . In 1891 he moved to Asheville and in 1898 to Greensboro . He practiced as a lawyer in both cities. In 1900 and 1901, Stedman was chairman of his state's bar association. He also participated in the railroad industry and served as President of the North Carolina Railroad from 1910 to 1911 . From 1899 to 1915 he was also a curator of the University of North Carolina.

In the 1910 congressional election , Stedman was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded John M. Morehead on March 4, 1911 . After nine re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on September 23, 1930 . During this time the First World War fell . Between 1913 and 1920, the 16th , 17th , 18th and 19th amendments were ratified. Charles Stedman was one of the last Civil War veterans in Congress.

Web links

• Charles Manly Stedman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Charles Manly Stedman in the database of Find a Grave (English)