Charles Nelson Pray

Charles Nelson Pray ( born April 6, 1868 in Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York, † September 12, 1963 in Great Falls, Montana ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1907 and 1913 he represented the state of Montana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years and career as a lawyer

Pray Charles attended the public schools in Salisbury and Middlebury in Vermont. He then studied law in Chicago. After his made ​​in 1892 Admitted to the Bar Pray began to work in his new job in Fort Benton in Montana. In 1897 he was first deputy and 1898 actual district attorney in Chouteau County.

Political career and other CV

Between March 4, 1907, and the March 3, 1913 represented Charles Pray his state as a Member of the Republican Party in Congress. He succeeds the exchanged in the Senate Joseph Dixon. After he was not re-elected in 1912, he was working as a lawyer again. In 1916, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. On January 21, 1924, he was appointed by President Calvin Coolidge to be a judge at the Federal District Court for the District of Montana. Later he was in this Judicial District Chief Judge. This office he held until his retirement in 1957. Charles Pray died in September 1963.

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