Charles M. Borchers

Charles Martin Borchers ( born November 18, 1869 in Lockville, Ohio; † 2 December 1946 in Decatur, Illinois ) was an American politician.

Borchers with his parents in 1875 to Illinois, where they settled in Macon County. Borchers later taught there for seven years. He studied law, was admitted to the legal profession in 1897 and then practiced in Decatur in Macon County. 1909 to 1911 he was mayor of the city.

Borchers was elected as a Democrat to the 63rd Congress and represented there on 4 March 1913 to 3 March 1915 the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the 1914 elections, he could not defend his seat. Borchers now started practicing again in his former profession. From 1919 to 1923 he was again mayor of Decatur. In 1924 he ran as a Democratic candidate in the gubernatorial election, but lost the Republican Len Small. Borchers died in 1946 in Decatur and was buried on the Frantz Cemetery in Macon County.