Charles Delemere Haines

Delemere Charles Haines ( born June 9, 1856 in Medusa, New York, † April 11, 1929 in Altamonte Springs, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1895 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Delemere Haines was born about five years before the outbreak of civil war in Medusa in Albany County. His family then moved to Coxsackie in Greene County. There he attended community schools. Haines began working as a telegraph operator, but soon rose to the dispatcher on the train (train dispatcher ) on. After that, he worked first as an assistant superintendent and most recently as superintendent at a railway line. Later built and he ran with his brothers a number of railway lines in the United States, Mexico and Canada. In 1888 he settled in Kinderhook in Columbia County, where he built the Kinderhook & Hudson Railroad. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1892 for the 53rd Congress Haines was in the 19th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Tracey on March 4, 1893. He suffered in his re-election bid in 1894, a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1895 from the Congress of.

After his time Congress he resumed his former business activities. He later settled in Altamonte Springs, where he died on 11 April 1929. His body was buried in the Cemetery in Hudson Falls Hudson Falls (New York).