Charles D. Drake

Charles Daniel Drake ( born April 11, 1811 in Cincinnati, Ohio, † April 1, 1892 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Missouri in the U.S. Senate.

Charles Drake attended from 1823 to 1824 the College in Bardstown (Kentucky), after which he was trained to 1825 at the Military Academy in Middletown (Connecticut), before signing on as a midshipman on a U.S. Navy ship. He served there until he left the Navy in 1829 to study law. Upon graduation and admission to the Bar Association in 1833, he moved to St. Louis, where he worked as a lawyer from 1834. Later he published writings in which he opposed slavery.

Between 1859 and 1860, Drake was a member of the House of Representatives from Missouri; In 1865 he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention. Finally, he was in 1866 elected to the Senate, where he served from March 4, 1867. He was Chairman of the Education Committee ( Committee on Education ), before he resigned his mandate on 19 December 1870 to accept the appointment to the Supreme Judge of the Court of Claims, a federal court in Washington. In this post he remained until he retired in 1885.