Charlton Reid Beattie

Charlton Reid Beattie (born April 22, 1869 in Assumption Parish , Louisiana , †  August 23, 1925 in Thibodaux , Louisiana) was an American lawyer . After his appointment by President Calvin Coolidge , he served only a few months until his death in 1925 as a federal judge in the federal district court for the eastern district of Louisiana.

Career

After graduating from school, Charlton Beattie first attended the University of Virginia until 1889 . At their School of Law , he earned a Bachelor of Laws in 1891 . whereupon he worked as a lawyer in Thibodaux from the following year. In 1913, he moved his practice to Louisiana . He had also previously served as a federal attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1909 to 1913 ; his successor in this position was Walter Guion . Beattie was a member of the Republican Party , but never held a political election. In 1908 he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in the third constituency of Louisiana , but was clearly defeated by the Democratic incumbent Robert F. Broussard . Otherwise, he was at times a faculty member at the Law School of Tulane University .

On January 13, 1925, Beattie was appointed a judge at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana by President Coolidge to succeed Rufus Edward Foster - who had already been his predecessor as a federal attorney . After confirmation by the US Senate on January 19, he was able to take office two days later. However, he only practiced it until his death on August 23 of the same year in Thibodaux. Charlton Beattie was buried in his mother's family's private cemetery on the Madewood Estate . His seat in the federal district court fell to Louis Henry Burns .

Web links

• Charlton Reid Beattie in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Charlton Reid Beattie at The Political Graveyard
• Charlton Reid Beattie in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Our Campaigns: LA - District 03: November 03, 1908