Charles R. Evans

Charles Robley Evans ( born August 9, 1866 in Breckenridge, Sangamon County, Illinois, † November 30, 1954 in Kearney, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1921 he represented the state of Nevada in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Evans attended the public schools of his home. He later moved to Manhattan in Nevada, where he worked from 1905 in the mining industry. Even after his move to Goldfield in Esmeralda County, he remained in this industry.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party, whose Democratic National Convention he attended in 1908 as a delegate. 1918 Evans was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took over from the March 4, 1919 Edwin Ewing Roberts. Since, however, he lost the election of 1920 against the Republican Samuel S. Arentz, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1921.

In the following years, he held no other higher political office. Between 1934 and 1948 he was a tour guide at the Capitol in Washington. Then he withdrew into retirement. Charles Evans died in 1954 in Kearney and was in Waco, also in Nebraska, buried.