Charles Rich (politician)

Charles Rich

Charles Rich (born September 13, 1771 in Warwick , Franklin County , Province of Massachusetts Bay , † October 15, 1824 in Shoreham , Vermont ) was an American politician . Between 1813 and 1815 he represented the fourth and from 1817 to 1824 the third constituency of the State of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Rich received only a limited education. In 1787 he moved to Shoreham, Vermont. There he worked on his family's farm. After his marriage in 1791, he ran his own farm. He also took part in a general store, among other things. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . Rich was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives between 1800 and 1811 . He also served as a district judge in Addison County for six years .

In the congressional elections of 1812 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the fourth district of Vermont , where he succeeded Martin Chittenden on March 4, 1813 . Rich represented that constituency until March 3, 1815, for only one term in Congress . Then the mandate fell to Asa Lyon from the Federalist Party . In the elections of 1816 he was re-elected to Congress in the third district, where he replaced Chauncey Langdon , also from the Federalist Party, on March 4, 1817 . He was confirmed in each of the following years. In the fall of 1824 he caught a bad cold while working on his farm, which he died of on October 15. His seat fell to Henry Olin after a by-election .

Web links

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

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