Charles J. Colden

Charles J. Colden ( born August 24, 1870 Peoria County, Illinois, † April 15, 1938 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1938 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1880 Charles Colden moved with his parents in the Nodaway County, Missouri, where he attended the public schools. After he graduated from the Shenandoah College in Iowa. Between 1889 and 1896, Colden was a teacher at various schools in the states of Iowa and Missouri. Then he went into the newspaper business. Between 1896 and 1908 he was in Missouri publishes two newspapers. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1901 and 1905 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Missouri. After that, he was from 1905 to 1908 Head of the Board of Northwest Missouri Teacher College. In 1908 Colden moved to Kansas City, where he worked in the Immobiblienbranche and in the construction sector. He practiced the same activities from 1912 in San Pedro, California. Between 1922 and 1924 he was president of the local Chamber of Commerce. He also led in 1923 to 1925, the Port Commission of Los Angeles. After that, he was from 1925 to 1929 on the local city council.

In the congressional elections of 1932 Colden was elected in the then newly established 17th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. After two re- elections he could remain until his death on 15 April 1938 at the Congress. At this time there many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.