Charles Edmund Boyle

Charles Edmund Boyle ( born February 4, 1836 in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, † December 15, 1888 in Seattle, Washington ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Boyle attended the common schools and Waynesburg College. After a subsequent law degree in 1861 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In 1862 he was elected district attorney in Fayette County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1865 and 1866 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; in the years 1867 and 1871 he was chairman of the regional democratic party conventions in Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1882 Boyle was in the 21st electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Morgan Ringland Wise on March 4, 1883. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1887 two legislative sessions. In 1886 he gave up another candidacy. In September 1888 Boyle was appointed as a judge in the Washington Territory. This office he held until his death on 15 December of the same year. He was buried in his birthplace of Uniontown.