Charles Albert Plumley

Charles Albert Plumley ( born April 14, 1875 in Northfield, Washington County, Vermont, † October 31, 1964 in Barre, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1934 and 1951 he represented the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Plumley was the son of Frank Plumley (1844-1924), who also was a congressman from Vermont 1909-1915. He attended the common schools and then to 1896 the Norwich University in Northfield. In 1894, he was Deputy Secretary of the Senate from Vermont. Between 1896 and 1900 Plumley teachers and school board was in his hometown of Northfield. Subsequently he was employed from 1900 to 1910 in the administration of the House of Representatives from Vermont. In 1901, he was an active member of the National Guard of the State, after which he was the reserve of a colonel.

After studying law and its made ​​in 1903 admitted to the bar Plumley began practicing in his new profession in Northfield. In 1906 he was also secretary of a mixed commission with American, French and Venezuelan members. Plumley was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1912 and 1915 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Vermont and also its president. From 1912 to 1919 he served as tax commissioner of his state. In the years 1919 and 1920 he worked for a rubber factory in Akron (Ohio ). After his return to Vermont Plumley served 1920-1934 as president of Norwich University. In the years 1936 and 1940 he worked for the government as Reading Clerk of the respective Republican National Conventions. At that time, he joined in the banking industry.

Following the resignation of Congressman Ernest Gibson, who moved to the U.S. Senate, Plumley was elected in the by-election due to his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives. After he was confirmed in the following eight regular congressional elections each in his mandate, he could remain between 16 January 1934, and January 3, 1951 at the Congress. There he experienced the overcoming of the Great Depression and the Second World War. In 1950, Plumley renounced another candidacy.

After the end of his time in Congress, Charles Plumley withdrew from politics and worked as a lawyer again. He died in 1964 in Barre and was buried in Northfield.

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