Charles A. Karch

Charles Adam Karch ( born March 17, 1875 St. Clair County, Illinois, † November 6, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri ) was an American politician. In the years 1931 and 1932, he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Karch attended the common schools and then studied until 1894 at the Northern Illinois Normal University, today's Illinois State University. Between 1895 and 1900 he worked as a teacher. After a simultaneous study of law at Wesleyan College in Bloomington and his 1898 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Belleville in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1901 and 1903 he worked as a secretary for Congressman Fred J. Kern. From 1904-1906 and again 1910-1914 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Illinois. Since 1914 he lived in East St. Louis, where he practiced law. From 1914 to 1918 he served as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of his state.

In the congressional elections of 1930, Karch was the 22nd electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Edward M. Irwin on March 4, 1931. This mandate he was able to exercise until his death on November 6, 1932. At this time he had already been nominated for re-election.