Charles Billinghurst

Charles Billinghurst ( born July 27, 1818 in Brighton, Franklin County, New York; † August 18, 1865 in Juneau, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Billinghurst attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1847 admitted to the bar he started in Rochester to work in his new profession. In the same year he moved to Juneau in Wisconsin Territory, where he also practiced law. Politically Billinghurst was then a member of the Democratic Party. After recording, Wisconsin into the Union, he was elected in 1848 in the State Assembly. In the presidential election in 1852 he was one of the democratic electors who formally chose Franklin Pierce as President. Then he turned away from the Democratic Party and joined the opposition party. Later he became a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

In the congressional elections of 1854 he was in the third electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John B. Macy on March 3, 1855. After a re-election in 1856 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1859 two legislative sessions. These were characterized by the discussions leading to the Civil War. In the 1858 elections Billinghurst defeated Democrat Charles H. Larrabee.

In the following years until his death in August 1865 Charles Billinghurst again practiced as a lawyer.