Charles Lewis Beale

Charles Lewis Beale ( born March 5, 1824 in Canaan, New York, † 29 January, 1900 in Hudson, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Lewis Beale graduated in 1844 from Union College in Schenectady. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1849 and then began in Canaan in Columbia County to practice. In 1852 he moved to Kinderhook, where he continued to work as a lawyer. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1858 for the 36th Congress Beale was in the twelfth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Thompson on March 4, 1859. In 1860 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1861 the Congress of.

After his conference time he went back to his work as a lawyer after. He took 1866 as a delegate to the Union National Convention in Philadelphia in part. On January 29, 1900, he died in Hudson and was then buried in Kinderhook on the same cemetery.