Charles B. Timberlake

Charles Bateman Timberlake ( born September 25, 1854 in Wilmington, Ohio, † May 31, 1941 in Sterling, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1933 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Timberlake attended the common schools and then from 1871 to 1874, the Earlham College in Richmond ( Indiana). He then worked as a teacher before he moved to Colorado in 1885. There he settled near Holyoke in Phillips County. Professionally he worked in agriculture and there, especially in the field of animal husbandry. He also remained in the teaching profession. Between 1889 and 1895 he was a School Board in Phillips County.

Timberlake was a member of the Republican Party and was its Executive Board from 1892 to 1910 in Colorado. From 1895 to 1897 he was district administrator in Phillips County; after which he was employed until 1914 when the federal authority to manage state-owned land in Sterling. In 1914 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. where he succeeded the Democrat Harry H. Seldomridge on March 4, 1915. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 a total of nine legislative sessions. For the elections of 1932 he was not nominated by his party. During his tenure in Congress, the committee had to deal, among other things with the entry of the United States into the First World War, the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage, the introduction and subsequent repeal of alcohol prohibition and the Great Depression.

After the end of his time in Congress Charles Timberlake has been renowned in the banking business in sterling. He died on 31 May 1941 and was buried in Fort Collins.