Charles H. Larrabee

Charles Hathaway Larrabee (* November 9, 1820 in Rome, Oneida County, New York, † January 20, 1883 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American soldier and politician. Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in childhood Charles Larrabee moved with his father to Ohio. He later visited the Granville College, from which today's Denison University emerged. Then he studied the engineering. After studying law and its made ​​in 1841 admitted to the bar he began in Pontotoc (Mississippi) to work in his new profession. In 1847, Larrabee moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he also practiced law. In the years 1846 and 1847 he was a legal representative of the city. In 1847 he moved his residence and his law firm after Horicon in Wisconsin Territory. In the same year he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the future state of Wisconsin. Between 1848 and 1858 Larrabee served first as a judge for the third judicial district, and later the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1858 he was in the third electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Billinghurst on March 4, 1859. Since he has not been confirmed in the elections of 1860, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1861. This was marked by the tension in the immediate run-up to the Civil War. In the last weeks of this legislative session Larrabee experienced the exodus of MPs from the southern states from the Congress.

During the civil war now following Larrabee served 1861-1863 as an officer in the army of the Union. He rose to the colonel. He participated in several battles, and then had to give up the military service for health reasons in 1863. In 1864 he moved to San Bernardino in California. There, and at times also in Salem ( Oregon) and Seattle (Washington), he worked as a lawyer. He died on January 20, 1883 in Los Angeles as the result of a railway accident. Charles Larrabee was buried in San Francisco.

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