Charles T. Dunwell

Charles Tappan Dunwell (born February 13, 1852 in Newark , New York , † June 12, 1908 in Brooklyn , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1903 and 1908 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Tappan Dunwell was born in Newark about nine years before the outbreak of the Civil War . His family then moved to Lyons , Wayne County in 1854 . There he attended the Lyons Union School . He went to Cornell University in Ithaca in 1873 . At the end of his freshman year, he moved to Columbia College Law School in New York City , where he graduated in 1874. He was admitted to the bar that same year and then began practicing in New York City. In 1889 he was the general agent for the New York Life Insurance Co. The following year he ran unsuccessfully for the position of comptroller in Brooklyn.

Politically, Dunwell belonged to the Republican Party . He was a member of the New York Republican State Committee in 1891 and 1892 . In the congressional election of 1902 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New York , where he succeeded Henry Bristow on March 4, 1903 . Dunwell was re-elected two times in a row. He died in Brooklyn during his third term on June 12, 1908, and was then buried in Evergreen Cemetery .

Web links

• Charles T. Dunwell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles T. Dunwell in the database of Find a Grave (English)