Charles Hall Dillon

Charles Hall Dillon (* December 18, 1853 in Jasper, Indiana, † September 15, 1929 in Vermillion, South Dakota ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1919 he represented the first electoral district of the state of South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

Charles Dillon attended the public schools of his home. He then studied under law at the Indiana University. After his 1876 was admitted to the bar he began in Jasper to work in his new profession. About a stopover in Marion (Iowa) which concluded in 1882 in the Dakota Territory. There he settled down first in Mitchell and from 1894 in Yankton as a lawyer.

Political rise

Charles Dillon was a member of the Republican Party, which he attended National Conventions in 1900 and 1908 as a delegate. From 1903 to 1911 he was a member of the Senate of South Dakota. In the congressional elections of 1912 Charles Dillon was elected as a candidate of the first electoral district of South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took over from the March 4, 1913 Charles H. Burke. After he was confirmed in each case in his office in the elections of 1914 and 1916, he was able to implement his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1919. In 1918, he opted not to run again.

Further CV

After the end of his service in the federal capital Washington Dillon again worked as a lawyer in Yankton. In 1922 he moved to Vermillion. In that year he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of his State. This office he held until his resignation on 15 November 1926. In 1924 he had applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate. Since 1926, Charles Dillon was living in retirement. He died in 1929 in Vermillion and was buried in Yankton.