Charles T. Dunwell

Charles Tappan Dunwell ( born February 13, 1852 in Newark, New York, † June 12, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1903 and 1908 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Tappan Dunwell was born about nine years before the outbreak of civil war in Newark. His family moved in 1854 to Lyons in Wayne County. There he attended the Lyons Union School. He went in 1873 to Cornell University in Ithaca. At the end of his first year, he joined the Columbia College Law School in New York City, where he graduated in 1874 'm doing. His admission to the bar he was in the same year and commenced practice in New York City after that. In 1889 he worked as a general agent for the New York Life Insurance Co.. The following year, he ran unsuccessfully for the post of Comptroller in Brooklyn.

Politically, Dunwell to the Republican Party. He was a member of the 1891 and 1892 New York Republican State Committee over the years. In the congressional elections of 1902 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry Bristow on March 4, 1903. Dunwell was re-elected twice in a row. He died during his third term on June 12, 1908 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Evergreen Cemetery.