Charles Miner

Charles Miner ( born 1 February 1780 in Norwich, Connecticut, † October 26, 1865 in Wilkes -Barre, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1825 and 1829 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Miner attended the public schools of his home. In 1797 he moved to the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, where his father owned some land. Since 1802, he lived in Wilkes - Barre and was out of there the newspaper Luzerne County Federalist. Politically, he joined the Federalist Party. In the years 1807 and 1808, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In 1816 he moved to West Chester. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party. He was a supporter of President John Quincy Adams.

In the congressional elections of 1824 Miner was in the fourth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Isaac Wayne on March 4, 1825. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1829 two legislative sessions. These were overshadowed by the debate between supporters and opponents of Andrew Jackson. In 1828 he gave up another candidacy.

Between 1829 and 1832 he published the newspaper Village Record. 1834 Charles Miner returned back to Wilkes- Barre. There he went into the mining business. The focus of his company lay in the field of anthracite coal in the Wyoming Valley. He died on October 26, 1865 in Wilkes- Barre.