Charles W. Willard

Charles W. Willard

Charles Wesley Willard (born June 18, 1827 in Lyndon , Vermont , †  June 8, 1880 in Montpelier , Vermont) was an American politician . Between 1869 and 1875 he represented the first constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After primary school, Charles Willard studied at Dartmouth College in Hanover ( New Hampshire ) until 1851 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1853, he began working in his new profession in Montpelier. Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party founded in 1854 . In 1855 and 1856 he was Secretary of State, executive officer of the Vermont state government. From 1860 to 1861 he was a member of the State Senate . In the following years Willard worked as a journalist. He became the publisher and editor of the newspaper "Montpelier Freeman".

In the congressional elections of 1868 Willard was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first district of Vermont , where he succeeded Frederick E. Woodbridge on March 4, 1869 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete a total of three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1875 . In the first two terms from 1869 to 1873 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with claims from the time of the American Revolution. In the elections of 1874 he was defeated by Charles Herbert Joyce .

After his time in Congress, Willard returned to work as a lawyer in Montpelier. In 1879 he was a member of a commission to review the laws of the State of Vermont. Charles Willard died in Montpelier in June 1880. Since August 24, 1855 he was married to Emily Doane Reed, the couple had four children.

Web links

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

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