Charles W. Walton

Charles W. Walton

Charles Wesley Walton (born December 9, 1819 in Mexico , Massachusetts , † January 24, 1900 in Portland , Maine ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1861 and 1862 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Walton was born in Mexico in 1819, which at that time still belonged to Massachusetts and fell to the newly created state of Maine the following year. He enjoyed a private education and also attended the public schools in his home country. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1841, he began to work in this profession in his home town. Soon after, he was practicing in Dixfield too . Between 1847 and 1851, Walton was a district attorney in Oxford County . In 1855 he moved his residence and his office to Auburn . He was then from 1857 to 1860 District Attorney in Androscoggin County .

Politically, Walton was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1860 he was in the second constituency of Maine in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC selected. There he took over from John J. Perry on March 4, 1861 . Walton only exercised his mandate until May 26, 1862. That day he resigned to serve as a judge in Maine. His time in Congress was overshadowed by the events of the Civil War . Walton's seat remained vacant until December 1, 1862. Only then did Thomas Fessenden , who was elected as his successor, take up his mandate and end his term of office, which ran until March 3, 1863.

From 1862 to 1897, Charles Walton was an associate judge on the Maine Supreme Court . After that, he retired. He died in Portland on January 24, 1900; he was buried there.

Web links

• Charles W. Walton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles W. Walton in the database of Find a Grave (English)