Charles Turner Junior

Charles Turner Jr. (born June 20, 1760 in Duxbury , Plymouth County , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  May 16, 1839 in Scituate , Massachusetts) was an American politician . Between 1809 and 1813 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Turner attended public schools in his home country. In 1787 he became a member of the Massachusetts militia, where he rose to lieutenant colonel in 1812. In 1800 he became a postman in Scituate. There he was also a justice of the peace. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson in the late 1790s . In 1803 and between 1805 and 1808 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives .

In the 1808 congressional elections , Turner lost to William Baylies . Due to a successful election he was able to move into Congress on June 28, 1809. After being re-elected, he could remain there until March 3, 1813. During this time the British-American War began . From 1811 Turner was chairman of the Committee on Accounts . In 1812 he was defeated by his predecessor William Baylies.

In 1816 Turner was a member of the Massachusetts Senate ; in 1817, 1819 and 1823 he was again a member of the House of Representatives of his state. He also acted as administrator of the Chelsea Naval Hospital . In 1820 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Massachusetts Constitution , from which the northern territories were then separated. This became the new state of Maine . As a result, Charles Turner worked in agriculture. He died on May 16, 1839 in Scituate.

Web links

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

• Charles Turner Jr. in the database of Find a Grave (English)