Charles F. Sprague

Charles Franklin Sprague ( born June 10, 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, † January 30, 1902 in Providence, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1901 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Sprague was the grandson of U.S. Senator Peleg Sprague ( 1793-1880 ). He attended the common schools and then studied until 1879 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree at the same University and Boston University and qualifying as a lawyer, he started working in Boston in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1889 and 1890 he sat on the city council of Boston. After that, he was from 1891 to 1892 deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Subsequently he served until 1894 as a park commissioner of the city of Boston. In 1895 and 1896 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Sprague was in the eleventh electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William F. Draper on March 4, 1897. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1901 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Spanish - American War in 1898. In 1900, Charles Sprague renounced a new Congress candidacy. He died within a year after his retirement from Congress on January 30, 1902 in a hospital in Providence.