Charles A. Floyd

Charles Albert Floyd (* 1791 in Smithtown, New York, † February 20, 1873 in Commack, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1841 and 1843 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Albert Floyd was born about eight years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Smithtown and grew up there. He attended community schools and then worked in agriculture. In the years 1820 and 1821 he was town clerk ( county clerk ). He studied law and practiced after receiving his license to practice law. In 1830 he worked as a district attorney ( district attorney ). He sat in the years 1836 and 1838 in the New York State Assembly. Between 1837 and 1840 he was President of the Board of Directors in Huntington. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1840 Floyd was the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas B. Jackson on March 4, 1841. Since he resigned in 1842 to run again, he retired after the March 3, 1843 out of the Congress. After that, he was 1843-1865 as District Judge in Suffolk County and worked 1843-1865 as Town Supervisor of Huntington. Floyd went back his activity in agriculture after. He died on 20 February 1873 in Commack and was then buried in the Methodist Church Cemetery.