Charles Bodle

Charles Bodle (* 1787 in Poughkeepsie, New York, † October 31, 1835 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1833 and 1835, he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Bodle was born about four years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Poughkeepsie. He was a wagon maker and justice of the peace. Bodle held several political posts in Bloomingburg. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1832 for the 23rd Congress Bodle in the seventh election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John C. Brodhead on March 4, 1833. Since he gave up for reelection in 1834, he retired after the March 3, 1835 out of the Congress. He died on October 31, 1835 in New York City and was buried in Bloomingburg in the same cemetery.