Charles Montague Bakewell

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Charles Montague Bakewell (born April 24, 1867 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , †  September 19, 1957 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Bakewell attended the public schools of his home country and then studied at the Western University of Pennsylvania , now the University of Pittsburgh . Bakewell studied at the University of California at Berkeley until 1889 and then philosophy at Harvard University until 1894 . From 1894 to 1896 he continued his studies at the universities in Strasbourg , Berlin and Paris . From 1896 Bakewell himself worked as a philosophy professor at various universities in the United States. These included Harvard, Berkeley, and Yale University . In 1910 he became president of the American Philosophical Association.

During the First World War , Bakewell served with the rank of major for the Red Cross in Italy . Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1920 and 1924 he was a member of the Connecticut Senate . He was also a member of a commission between 1921 and 1923 that revised the state's educational laws. Bakewell also published several scientific papers.

He was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 1932 congressional election, held for Connecticut's then re-established sixth term . There he completed a legislative period between March 4, 1933 and January 3, 1935, which was marked by the global economic crisis . At that time, the first New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were introduced in Congress . In the 1934 elections, Charles Bakewell was defeated by the Democrat William M. Citron . Then he withdrew from politics. He died in New Haven in September 1957 at the age of 90.

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SURNAME Bakewell, Charles Montague
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1957
Place of death New Haven , Connecticut