Charles Rich (U.S. Representative)

Charles Rich ( * September 13, 1771 in Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts, † October 15, 1824 in Shoreham, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1813 and 1815 he represented the fourth and 1817-1824 the third electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Rich received only a limited education. In 1787 he moved to Shoreham, Vermont. There he worked on the family farm. After his marriage in 1791 he managed its own farm. He also participated among others in a grocery store. Politically, he was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1800 and 1811 Rich was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Vermont. In addition, he spent six years as a district judge in Addison County.

In the congressional elections of 1812, he was elected in the fourth district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Martin Chittenden on March 4, 1813. Rich represented that constituency until March 3, 1815 only one term in Congress. Then the mandate fell to Asa Lyon of the Federalist Party. In the elections of 1816 he was elected to Congress again in the third district, where he died on March 4, 1817 Chauncey Langdon, also, replaced by the Federalist Party. In the following years he was confirmed in each case. In the autumn of 1824 he retired at work on his farm a heavy cold to where he died on October 15. His seat was taken after a special election to Henry Olin.