Charles Ready

Charles Ready (1859)

Charles Ready (born December 22, 1802 in Readyville , Cannon County , Tennessee , †  June 4, 1878 in Murfreesboro , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1853 and 1859 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Ready was an uncle of William T. Haskell (1818-1859), who also sat for Tennessee in Congress from 1847 to 1849 . He attended public schools in his home country and Greeneville College . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1825, he began to work in Murfreesboro in his new profession.

Politically, he became a member of the then newly formed Whig Party in the mid-1830s . In 1835, Ready was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives. In the congressional election of 1852 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded George Washington Jones on March 4, 1853 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1859. These were determined by the events leading up to the civil war . Ready had been a member of the short-lived American Party since 1855 after the Whigs broke up.

When Ready was not confirmed in the 1858 elections , he returned to Murfreesboro, where he practiced as a lawyer again. He died there on June 4, 1878.

Web links

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

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