Charles A. Sumner

Charles Allen Sumner ( born August 2, 1835 in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, † January 31, 1903 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Sumner attended Trinity College in Hartford (Connecticut). After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In 1856 he moved to San Francisco, where he edited a newspaper in 1861. Between 1862 and 1864 he served during the Civil War as a captain in the army of the Union. After his military service, he moved in 1864 to Virginia City in Nevada. There he hit as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1865 and 1868 he was a member of the Senate from Nevada, which he was president in the meantime. In 1868 he returned to San Francisco where he was a newspaper publisher again.

In the congressional elections of 1882 Sumner was in the then newly established sixth electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1883. Since he has not been confirmed in 1884, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1885. There he fought the railroads in his homeland. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Charles Sumner again practiced as a lawyer. He died on January 31, 1903 in San Francisco.