Charles W. Walton

Charles Wesley Walton ( born December 9, 1819 in Mexico, Oxford County, Massachusetts, † 24 January, 1900 in Portland, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1862 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Walton was born in 1819 in the town of Mexico, who was then still belonged to Massachusetts and the following year fell to the then newly created state of Maine. He enjoyed a private education and in addition still attended the common schools. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1841 admitted to the bar he began in his home town to work in his new profession. Soon after, he also practiced in the village of Dixfield. Between 1847 and 1851 Walton was district attorney in Oxford County. In 1855 he moved his residence and his law firm to Auburn. After that, he was from 1857 to 1860 district attorney in Androscoggin County.

Politically, Walton member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1860 he was in the second electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he joined March 4, 1861 to succeed John J. Perry. Walton exercised his mandate but only until May 26, 1862. On this day he resigned to accept a judicial office in Maine. His time in Congress was overshadowed by the events of the Civil War. Walton's seat remained vacant until 1 December 1862. Only then joined the elected his successor Thomas Fessenden to his seat and finished the runs until March 3, 1863 term of office.

Since 1862 to 1897 was Charles Walton Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Maine. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on January 24, 1900 in Portland; where he was also buried.