Charles Hughes (representative)

Charles Hughes ( born February 27, 1822 in New Orleans, Louisiana; † August 10, 1887 in Sandy Hill (now Hudson Falls ), New York) was an American lawyer and politician. From 1853 to 1855 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Hughes was born about seven years after the end of the British - American War in New Orleans. He completed his preliminary studies. Then he studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1846, then began to practice in Sandy Hill. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1852 for the 33rd Congress, he was in the 15th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Russell on March 4, 1853. He retired after March 3, 1855 from the Congress.

Between 1860 and 1862 he worked as a clerk at the Court of Appeals ( Court of Appeals ) of New York. During the Civil War he was responsible in 1862 as Provost Marshal for the 16th District of New York. Between 1875 and 1879 he was on the staff of the Governor of New York and Judge Advocate General in the National Guard of New York. He sat in the years 1878 and 1879 in the Senate from New York. Then he went back to his work as a lawyer after. On August 10, 1887, he died in Sandy Hill and was then buried in the Union Cemetery, which lies between Fort Edward and Sandy Hill.