Charles S. Millington

Charles Stephen Millington ( born March 13, 1855 in Norway, New York, † October 25, 1913 in Herkimer, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1911 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Stephen Millington was born about six years before the outbreak of the civil war in Herkimer County. He attended the district schools of Poland, the Fairfield Academy and the Hungerford Collegiate Institute. Then he worked for the Hungerford National Bank in Adams. He founded the Bank of Poland, where he became cashier. In 1894 he moved to Herkimer, where he continued working in the banking business. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1908 he took part in Chicago as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.

In the congressional elections of 1908 for the 61st Congress Millington was in the 27th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James S. Sherman on March 4, 1909. He suffered in his renewed bid 1910 a defeat and then retired after March 3, 1911 the Congress of.

After his time he took Congress in Herkimer its previous banking activities again. President William Howard Taft appointed him deputy national treasurer, in charge of the Federal Treasury in New York. His service, he took up on 12 May 1911 - a post he held until his death. He died on October 25, 1913 in Herkimer. His body was then buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery in Poland.