Charles Herbert Joyce

Charles Herbert Joyce (* January 30, 1830 in Andover, England, † November 22, 1916 in Pittsfield, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1883 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Joyce was born in the English county of Hampshire in 1836 and emigrated with his parents to the United States. The family settled in Waitsfield (Vermont ). Charles attended the Northfield Academy and Newbury Seminary. After studying law and its made ​​in 1852 admitted to the bar he began Northfield to work in his new profession. He also worked for two years as Archivator the state government of Vermont (State Librarian ).

Between 1857 and 1858 Joyce was district attorney in Washington County. During the Civil War he was a Major in the regular U.S. Army and Lieutenant Colonel of a volunteer unit from Vermont. After the end of the war he again worked as a lawyer.

Politically, Charles Joyce member of the Republican Party. From 1869 to 1871 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Vermont; Since 1870 he was president of this chamber. In 1874 he was in the first district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles W. Willard on March 4, 1875. After three re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 a total of four legislative sessions. In 1882 he abandoned a bid again. After the end of his time in Congress Joyce again worked as a lawyer in Rutland. Then he moved back to Pittsfield, where he spent his twilight years. He died in November 1916, and was buried in Rutland.

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