Charles J. Gilman
Charles Jervis Gilman ( born February 26, 1824 in Exeter, New Hampshire; † February 5, 1901 in Brunswick, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1859 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Charles Gilman enjoyed a good education and graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy in his native Exeter. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his made in 1850 admitted to the bar he began in Exeter to work in his new profession. Politically, he was a member of the Whig party. In the years 1851 and 1852 Gilman sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. Then he moved and his law firm to Brunswick in Maine. There, too, he became politically active. In 1854 and 1855 he was a member of the House of Representatives of that State. In Maine, he also belonged to the regional board of the Whigs. After this mid-1850s had dissolved, Gilman was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854.
In 1856 he was a candidate in the second electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1857, the successor of John J. Perry, who did not stand. Since Gilman himself renounced in 1858 on another candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1859. This was marked by the discussions leading to the Civil War. After retiring from Congress its mandate fell back to his predecessor John Perry, who had in the meantime also become a member of the Republican Party. In 1860, Gilman was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate. In the following decades, he retired from politics. He took care of problems of water supply and other public sources. Charles Gilman died on 5 February 1901 in Brunswick and was buried there.
He was a great-nephew of John Taylor Gilman (1753-1828), delegate to the Continental Congress and governor of New Hampshire was. Another great-uncle of Charles Gilman Nicholas Gilman was (1755-1814), who then represented the state of New Hampshire in the first Continental Congress and 1789-1814 in both chambers of Congress.