Charles S. Benton

Charles S. Benton

Charles Swan Benton (born July 12, 1810 in Fryeburg , Maine , † May 4, 1882 in La Crosse , Wisconsin ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1843 and 1847 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Swan Benton was born in Fryeburg, Oxford County , about two years before the outbreak of the British-American War . He went to preliminary studies. In 1824 he moved to Herkimer County , where he lived with an older brother. He attended the Lowville Academy in Lowville . Then he did an apprenticeship as a tanner. Between 1830 and 1832 he edited the Mohawk Courier and the Little Falls Gazette . He studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1835 and then began practicing in Little Falls . As a guardianship and probate judge ( surrogate ) he worked in 1837 in Herkimer County. He was a Judge Advocate in the New York Militia . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the congressional elections of 1842 for the 28th Congress , Benton was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 17th constituency of New York , where he succeeded David P. Brewster and John G. Floyd on March 4, 1843 who had previously represented the district in the US House of Representatives. He was re-elected once. Since he on a run again in 1846 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1847 Congress of.

Between 1847 and 1849 he was a clerk at the Court of Appeals . He then moved to Milwaukee in 1855 , where he became an editor for Milwaukee News . President Franklin Pierce appointed him in 1856 to register in the US Land Registry in La Crosse - a position which he held until the 1,861th He then ran unsuccessfully for the 38th Congress in 1862 . He then worked in agriculture at West Salem (Wisconsin) and from 1865 in Galesburg ( Illinois ). He returned to La Crosse in 1869. Between 1874 and 1881 he was a judge in La Crosse County . He died on May 4, 1882 in La Crosse and was then buried in Oak Grove Cemetery . His brother was Nathaniel S. Benton .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 348 and 414.

Web links

• Charles S. Benton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles S. Benton in the database of Find a Grave (English)