Charles H. Page

Charles Harrison Page ( born July 19, 1843 in Glocester, Providence County, Rhode Iceland, † July 21, 1912 in Providence, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician. In 1887 and 1891-1895, he was the second electoral district of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Page attended the common schools. During the Civil War he was until July 1863 infantryman in a volunteer force of Rhode Iceland. After his military service, continued his education at the Page Illinois State Normal School in Bloomington and at Southern Illinois College at Carbondale continued. In 1869, Page returned to Rhode Iceland, where he worked 1869-1870 in Scituate as a teacher. After studying law at the University of Albany in Albany (New York ), he started first in Scituate and later in Providence to practice in his new profession.

Page was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1872 and 1873 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland, from 1874 to 1890 he was one of several times with interruptions to the State Senate. In 1876 he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and in 1879, he ran unsuccessfully as well as Attorney General of Rhode Iceland. 1880, 1884 and 1888 he was a delegate to each of the respective Democratic National Conventions. In the congressional elections of 1886, he was defeated by Republican William A. Pirce. Page laid but against the outcome of the election opposition, became the finally accepted. This led to a special election that won Page. So that he could spend between 21 February and 3 March 1887, the last two weeks of the fractured legislature in Congress.

Since he had not been confirmed at the regular congressional elections of 1886, he had to resign from his position at Warren O. Arnold. Page 1890, re-elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After a re-election, which will be repeated because of the very tight result had to, he could remain between 4 March 1891, March 3, 1895 Congress. He was chairman of the Committee on Manufactures. In 1894 renounced Page to a bid again. He retired from politics and worked as a lawyer again.