Charles Memorial Hamilton

Charles Memorial Hamilton ( born 1 November 1840 in Pine Creek, Clinton County, Pennsylvania, † October 22, 1875 ) was an American politician. Between 1868 and 1871 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Hamilton attended the common schools and graduated from the Law School of the city of Columbia law thereafter. During the Civil War he was a soldier in the army of the Union. During the war, he became head of the military legal department ( Judge Advocate ) in the Potomac Army. After that he was on the staff of competent for the area of the Federal Capital military commander. In 1865, Hamilton was moved to Marianna in occupied Florida. There he worked from 1867 as a lawyer.

Politically, Hamilton was a member of the Republican Party. After the resumption of Florida into the Union in 1868 he was in the then single electoral district of the state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 1 July 1868. After a re-election at the regular congressional elections of 1868 he could remain until March 3, 1871 Congress. At this time there the 14th and the 15th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted.

1870 Hamilton was not nominated by his party for re-election. A year later he was appointed major general of the state militia. From 1871 to 1872 Hamilton was also postmaster of the city of Jacksonville. He then headed the customs authority in Key West. But this office he was forced to retire for health reasons. Charles Hamilton died on 22 October 1875 in his native Pine Creek.