Charles A. Stevens

Charles Abbott Stevens ( born August 9, 1816 in North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, † April 7, 1892 in New York City ) was an American politician. In 1875, he represented the state of Massachusetts for 28 days in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Stevens was the older brother of Congressman Moses T. Stevens (1825-1907) and a cousin of Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862), the Congress delegate and first governor of Washington Territory was. He attended the Franklin Academy and then in 1841 was active in goods in the clothing manufacturing. In 1853 he became a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Stevens was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In the years 1860 and 1868, he participated as a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions, to which Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant later was nominated as the presidential candidate. Between 1867 and 1870, he also belonged to the senior staff of the Governor. In 1874, he ran unsuccessfully for even the U.S. House of Representatives.

After the death of the deputy Alvah Crocker Stevens was but then at the due election for the tenth seat of Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on January 27, 1875. Until March 3, 1875, he could end the current parliamentary terms in Congress. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Stevens took his previous work in the clothing industry again. He died on April 7, 1892 in New York and was buried in Ware.