Charles Delano

Charles Delano (* June 24, 1820 in New Braintree, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † January 23, 1883 in Northampton, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1863 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1833, Charles Delano came with his parents to Amherst, where he then until 1840 attended the public schools and Amherst College. After a subsequent law degree in 1842 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Amherst in this profession. In 1848 he moved his residence and his law firm to Northampton. Between 1849 and 1858 he was treasurer in the local Hampshire County. Politically, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

In the congressional elections of 1858 Delano was in the tenth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Calvin C. Chaffee on March 4, 1859. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1863 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War and since 1861 by the war itself. In 1862 he renounced a new Congress candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Charles Delano again practiced as a lawyer. Between 1877 and 1883 he was curator of the Clark School for the Education of the Deaf, a school for the hearing impaired. In addition, he was appointed in 1878 by the state government of Massachusetts to the Special Representative for the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad. He died on January 23, 1883 in Northampton, where he was also buried.