Charles W. Waterman

Charles Winfield Waterman ( born November 2, 1861 in Waitsfield, Washington County, Vermont; † August 27, 1932 in Washington DC ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Colorado in the U.S. Senate.

Charles Waterman attended the village school and a private school in St. Johnsbury. In 1885 he graduated from the University of Vermont, after which he worked as a teacher in Connecticut and Iowa until 1888. The following year he graduated from the Law School of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and was admitted to the Bar Association. Then he began to practice as a lawyer in Denver.

In 1926, Waterman ran for his party's nomination for the Senate seat, which at that time with Rice W. Means held another Republican. He defeated Means in the Primary and then sat down and in the actual election very close to Democrat William Sweet by so he could move into the Senate on March 4, 1927. There he took over, among others, the chair of the Patent Committee. Before the end of his term Waterman died in August 1932 in Washington.