Charles Stewart Voorhees

Charles Stewart Voorhees

Charles Stewart Voorhees (born June 4, 1853 in Covington , Fountain County , Indiana , †  December 26, 1909 in Spokane , Washington ) was an American politician . Between 1885 and 1889 he represented the Washington Territory as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Voorhees was a son of Daniel W. Voorhees (1827-1897), who represented the state of Indiana in the US Senate between 1877 and 1897 . The younger Voorhees attended Wabash College in Crawfordsville and then studied at Georgetown College in Washington . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1875, he began to work in his new profession in Terre Haute .

In 1882 Voorhees moved to Colfax , Washington Territory. Between 1882 and 1885 he was a district attorney in Whitman County there . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1884 he was elected as a delegate of his territory to the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded Republican Thomas Hurley Brents on March 4, 1885 . After re-election in 1886, he was able to spend two terms in Congress until March 3, 1889 . In the elections of 1888 he was defeated by Republican John Beard Allen .

After leaving the US House of Representatives in 1889, Voorhees worked again as a lawyer in Colfax in the Washington Territory, which was dissolved that year in favor of the newly formed State of Washington. Voorhees later moved his residence and law firm to Spokane, where he died in December 1909.

Web links

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

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