Charles Frederick Barclay

Charles Frederick Barclay ( born May 9, 1844 in Owego, New York, † March 9, 1914 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1911 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Barclay visited the Painted Post High School in New York State and the Coudersport Academy in Pennsylvania. After that, he taught for several years as a teacher. Between 1862 and 1865 he served during the civil war in the army of the Union, where he rose to become captain. He was a member of an infantry unit from Pennsylvania. After the war he continued his education at Belfast Seminary continues in New York. Then he studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Jura. He later but never worked as a lawyer. Instead, he got together with his older brother in Sinnamahoning (Pennsylvania) in the wood shop a. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In June 1900 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in part, was nominated to the President William McKinley for re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1906, Barclay was elected in 21 electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Solomon Robert Dresser on March 4, 1907. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1911 two legislative sessions. In 1910 he gave up another candidacy. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Barclay was active in the federal capital Washington as a businessman. He died there on March 9, 1914 and was buried in Sinnamahoning.