Charles Murray Turpin

Charles Murray Turpin ( born March 4, 1878 in Kingston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, † June 4, 1946 ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1937 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Turpin attended the public schools and high schools of his home and the Wyoming Seminary in Kingston. Between 1896 and 1901 he was a member of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, in which he brought it up to the captain. He also took part in the Spanish-American War of 1898. He then worked as a carpenter, sellers and steamboat captain. After studying dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his 1905 was admitted as a dentist, he began practicing in Kingston in this profession. From 1916 to 1922, he also belonged to the local school board; 1922 to 1926 he was mayor (Burgess) of Kingston. Thereafter, he practiced 1926-1929 from the function of the Prothonotary in Luzerne County. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

After the death of Rep. John J. Casey Turpin was in the overdue election for the twelfth seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on June 4, 1929. After two re- elections he could remain until January 3, 1937 at the Congress. Since 1933, the first New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there were adopted, which Turpin's party faced a rather negative. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3.

In 1936, Charles Turpin was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked as Assistant Chief Clerk for the management of Luzerne County. He died on June 4, 1946 in his hometown of Kingston.