Charles E. Phelps

Charles Edward Phelps ( born May 1, 1833 in Guilford, Vermont, † December 27, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1869 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1837 Charles Phelps came with his parents to New Jersey; 1841 the family moved to Maryland on. He attended the public schools of his new home and then studied until 1852 at the Princeton College. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his 1855 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. In 1860 he became a member of the local city council. During the Civil War he served from 1862 in the army of the Union, where he rose to colonel. In 1898 he was awarded for his former military services, the Congressional Medal of Honor

In the congressional elections of 1864 was Phelps as a Unionist in the third electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry Winter Davis on March 4, 1865. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1869 two legislative sessions. Since 1865 the work of the Congress was overshadowed by the tensions between the Republican Party and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment. While Phelps ' time in Congress were the 14th and the 15th Amendment to the Constitution ratified.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. At times he also served as State Representative for the public school system. From 1882 to 1908 he was a judge in Baltimore. At the same time he taught 1884-1907 the Law Faculty at the University of Maryland. He died on December 27, 1908 in Walbrook, a suburb of Baltimore. Since 1868 Charles Phelps was married to Martha Woodward, with had a daughter.