Charles E. Pickett

Charles Edgar Pickett ( born January 14, 1866 Bonaparte, Van Buren County, Iowa; † July 20, 1930 in Waterloo, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1913 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Pickett attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1888, the Iowa State University in Iowa City. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made ​​in 1890 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession in Waterloo in Black Hawk County. He was also vice president of the Pioneer National Bank. Between 1896 and 1909 he was Dean of the State University of Iowa.

Politically, Pickett member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1908 he was in the third electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Benjamin P. Birdsall on March 4, 1909. After a re-election in 1910 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1913 two legislative sessions. At this time the 16th Amendment was passed by the levying a general income tax was adopted. In the 1912 elections Pickett defeated by Democrat Maurice Connolly.

After his time in the House of Representatives Pickett again worked as a lawyer. In 1899 and 1916 he was chairman of the regional party days of the Republicans in Iowa. In 1920 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated at the Warren G. Harding as their presidential candidate. In 1926, Pickett competed unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. He died on July 20, 1930 in Waterloo.

177417
de