Charles K. Wheeler

Charles Kennedy Wheeler (* April 18, 1863 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, † June 15, 1933 in Paducah, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1903 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Wheeler initially enjoyed a private education. Then he studied until 1879 at the Southwestern University in Clarksville ( Tennessee). After a subsequent law studies at the Lebanon Law School and was admitted as an attorney of his 1880 he began in Paducah to work in this profession. Between 1894 and 1896 he was a trial lawyer of this city.

Politically, Wheeler was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1896 he was the first electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Kerr Hendrick on March 4, 1897. After two re- election he was able to complete in 1903 three contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898.

In 1902, Wheeler gave up a bid again. He retired from politics and practiced in the decades until his death as a lawyer in Paducah. There he is on 15 June 1933, died.