Charles Dorr

Charles Phillips Dorr ( born August 12, 1852 in Miltonsburg, Monroe County, Ohio; † October 8, 1914 in Marlinton, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the third electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1866, Charles Dorr moved with his parents to Woodsfield (Ohio ). There he attended the public schools. In the following years he worked as a teacher in Ohio and West Virginia. After studying law and its made ​​in 1874 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new job in the same year in West Virginia. Dorr was a member of the Republican Party and was a member of the City Council of Webster Springs, West Virginia. In 1884 and 1888 he sat in the House of Representatives from West Virginia; In 1887, he practiced in this chamber of parliament from the ceremonial office of " Sergeant at Arms ".

1896 Dorr was elected in the third district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of James Hall Huling on March 4, 1897. Since he was not nominated for the following elections of his party, Dorr was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1899. In this time of the Spanish-American War was. The Philippines and some other Pacific islands came under American control.

After the end of his time in Congress Dorr again worked as a lawyer in Webster Springs. He died on 8 October 1914 on his estate near Marlinton.