Charles R. Eckert

Charles Richard Eckert ( born January 20, 1868 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, † October 26, 1959 in Rochester, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1939 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Eckert attended the public schools of his home, the Piersol 's Academy in West Bridgewater and the Geneva College in Beaver Falls. After a subsequent law degree in 1894 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Beaver to work in this profession. Later he hit as a member of the Democratic Party also a political career. In June 1928 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Houston in part, on the Al Smith was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1934, Eckert was the 26th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican J. Howard Swick on 3 January 1935. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1939 two legislative sessions. During this time other New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted. 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.

1938 Charles Eckert was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He was also Co. He died on October 26, 1959 at the age of 91 years in a car accident in Rochester and was buried in Beaver board member of the Beaver Trust Company.