Charles G. Ferris

Charles Goadsby Ferris (* 1796 in Throgs Neck, New York, † June 4, 1848 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented in the years 1834 and 1835 and 1841-1843 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Goadsby Ferris was born at the end of the 18th century in The Homestead. He received a limited education. Then he studied law and began after receiving his license to practice law in New York City to practice. Ferris was in 1832 and 1833 Member of the Board of Aldermen in years. Politically, he was a member at the time of Jacksonian Group. He was born on December 1, 1834 in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of Dudley Selden. Later, he joined the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1840 he was re-elected in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Moses Hicks Grinnell, Edward Curtis, Josiah O. Hoffman and James Monroe on March 4, 1841 which previously together had represented the third district in the U.S. House of Representatives. During the time as a congressman, he was largely responsible for funding from the Congress to secure for the construction of the first telegraph line. He died after the Mexican-American War on June 4, 1848 in New York City.