Charles Risk

Charles Francis Risk (born August 19, 1897 in Central Falls , Rhode Island , † December 26, 1943 in Lincoln , Rhode Island) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1937 and from 1939 to 1941 he represented the first constituency of the state of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Risk attended elementary and secondary schools in his home country and then worked in the textile industry. During the First World War he was stationed as a soldier in the US Army at Camp Meigs. In 1919 and 1922 Risk was an employee of the Treasury Department in Washington . At the same time he studied law at Georgetown University . After his admission to the bar in 1923, he began working in his new profession in Central Falls. In this city he also worked as a judge at a probate court between 1929 and 1931. From 1931 to 1932 Risk was an examining magistrate at Lincoln. He then worked from 1932 to 1935 as a judge in the eleventh judicial district.

Risk was a member of the Republican Party . In 1936, 1940 and 1942 he took part as a delegate at their regional party conventions in Rhode Island. After the resignation of Congressman Francis Condon , who had been appointed Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, Risk was elected as his successor in the US House of Representatives in the by-election. There he ended his predecessor's term of office between August 6, 1935 and January 3, 1937. Since he was defeated by the Democrat Aime Forand in the 1936 elections, Risk had to give up his seat in Congress . However, two years later, in the 1938 congressional election, he managed to beat Forand and regain his old seat. This enabled him to complete another term in the House of Representatives between January 3, 1939 and January 3, 1941. In the 1940 elections there was another duel with Forand, which he then won. Forand would then hold this mandate continuously for 20 years.

After leaving Congress, Charles Risk worked as a lawyer in Pawtucket . He died in December 1943 in Saylesville, a suburb of Lincoln, and was buried in Pawtucket.

Web links

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

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