Charles W. Roark

Charles Wickliffe Roark ( born January 22, 1887 in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, † April 5, 1929 in Louisville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. In 1929, he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Roark attended the common schools and the Greenville Seminary. He then became active in the lumber business. He was founder and president of Greenville Milling Co. In the years 1908 and 1909 Roark led some associations in the wood processing industry.

Politically, Roark member of the Republican Party. Between 1918 and 1922 he served as mayor of Greenville. In 1928 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, was nominated on the Herbert Hoover as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1928 he was in the third electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat John William Moore took on 4 March 1929 that he had beaten in the election. Roark already died on 5 April 1929 before the first meeting of the new Congress. The by-elections due then won his predecessor Moore, who also became his successor in this way. Charles Roark was buried in Greenville.