Charles F. Curry

Charles Forrest Curry ( born March 14, 1858 in Naperville, Illinois; † 10 October 1930 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1930 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Curry attended the public schools of his home and then the Episcopal Academy in Mineral Point (Wisconsin ). He also enjoyed the meantime, a private education. He then studied for a year at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he had moved with his parents in 1872. In 1873 he came to San Francisco in California, where he worked in agriculture, animal husbandry, the lumber business and in mining. 1888 Curry was admitted to the bar. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1887 and 1888 he was a deputy in the California State Assembly. Between 1890 and 1894 he conducted a post office in San Francisco; 1894 to 1898 he was employed by the management of the San Francisco County. After that, he was 1899-1910, the Secretary of State in the state government of California. This period was, among other things, the heavy earthquake that shook San Francisco.

In 1910, Curry ran unsuccessfully for the governorship of California. In 1911 he was real estate and credit officer of the state government. In the same year he represented the states of the west coast and the adjacent mountain regions on the Panama - Pacific International Exposition, the World Expo in San Francisco. In the congressional elections of 1912 Curry was selected in the third electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Joseph R. Knowland on March 4, 1913, who joined in the sixth district. After eight elections he could remain until his death on October 10, 1930 in Congress. Since 1919 he was Chairman of the Committee for the administration of the U.S. territories. In his time as a congressman of the First World War fell. At that time the 16th, the 17th, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

After Curry's death, his son Charles was chosen as his successor in Congress.