Charles E. Belknap

Charles Eugene Belknap ( born October 17, 1846 in Massena, St. Lawrence County, New York, † January 16, 1929 in Grand Rapids, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1889 and 1893 he represented two times the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Belknap attended the public schools of his home and moved in 1855 with his parents to Grand Rapids. Between 1862 he took part in the civil war. He rose to become a captain in the army of the Union. In 1864 he was with the troops of General William T. Sherman, who conquered Atlanta and across attracted by Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Between 1865 and 1871 Belknap lived on a farm near Sparta, Michigan. Then he returned to Grand Rapids. There he founded the Belknap Wagon and Sleigh Company. He also became a member of the local fire department.

Politically, Belknap member of the Republican Party. He sat in the Education Committee in his hometown. Between 1880 and 1882 he was a member of the City Council of Grand Rapids; in 1884 he was elected mayor there. From 1885 to 1891 he was curator of the deaf home in Flint. In the congressional elections of 1888 he was in the fifth electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he Democrats Melbourne H. Ford replaced on March 4, 1889, he was defeated at the election. Since he did not run in the elections of 1890, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1891. In these elections, his predecessor Melbourne Ford was elected his successor. However, since these already died on April 20, 1891, it came in the fifth district to elections, in which Belknap was re-elected to Congress. There he completed between November 1891 and March 3, 1893, the current legislative period 3. In the elections of 1892 Belknap defeated Democrat George F. Richardson. He appealed against this election unsuccessfully a contradiction.

During the Spanish- American War he did in Fort Oglethorpe administrative tasks. Subsequently, Charles Belknap withdrew into private life. He died on January 16, 1929 in Grand Rapids.

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