Charles S. Benton

Charles Swan Benton ( born July 12, 1810 in Fryeburg, Maine; † May 4, 1882 in La Crosse, Wisconsin) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1843 and 1847 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Swan Benton was born about two years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Fryeburg in Oxford County. He went to preliminary studies. In 1824 he moved to Herkimer County, where he lived with an older brother. He attended Lowville Academy in Lowville. Then he made an apprenticeship as a tanner. Between 1830 and 1832 he gave the Mohawk Courier, and the Little Falls Gazette out. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1835 and then began to practice in Little Falls. As guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ), he worked in 1837 in Herkimer County. He was Judge Advocate in the militia of New York. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1842 for the 28th Congress Benton was in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeds David P. Brewster and John G. Floyd took on March 4, 1843 which had previously together represent the district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1846, he retired after March 3, 1847 from the Congress.

Between 1847 and 1849 he was a clerk at the Court of Appeals ( Court of Appeals ). He then moved to Milwaukee in 1855, where he was an editor at Milwaukee News. President Franklin Pierce appointed him in 1856 to register in the U.S. Land Registry Office in La Crosse - a position which he held until 1861. He then ran unsuccessfully in 1862 for the 38th Congress. After that, he worked at West Salem (Wisconsin ) in agriculture and from 1865 in Galesburg ( Illinois). He returned in 1869 to La Crosse back. Between 1874 and 1881 he was a judge in La Crosse County. He died on May 4, 1882 in La Crosse and was then buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery. His brother was Nathaniel S. Benton.