Charles C. Ellsworth

Charles Clinton Ellsworth ( born January 29, 1824 in West Berkshire, Vermont, † 25 July 1899, at Greenville, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1879 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Ellsworth attended the public schools of his home, including a school in Bakersfield. He then taught one winter as a teacher in Vermont, before he moved to Howell in Michigan, where he was also initially worked as a teacher. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1848 admitted to the bar he began in Howell to work in his new profession. In 1849 he was a prosecutor in Livingston County. 1851 Ellsworth moved to Greenville, where he was elected mayor. In 1853 he was prosecutor in Montcalm County. At the same time he began a political career. From 1852 to 1854 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Michigan. During the Civil War he was in the year 1862 as a major paymaster in the army of the Union.

Ellsworth was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was in the eighth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Nathan B. Bradley on March 4, 1877. Since he resigned in 1878 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1879. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Ellsworth withdrew from politics. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. He died on June 25, 1899 in Greenville.

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