Charles W. Willard

Charles Wesley Willard ( born June 18, 1827 in Lyndon, Vermont, † June 8, 1880 in Montpelier, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1869 and 1875 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, Charles Willard studied until 1851 at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). After studying law and its made ​​in 1853 admitted to the bar he began in Montpelier to work in his new profession. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In the years 1855 and 1856 he was managing as Secretary of State official of the state government of Vermont. From 1860 to 1861 he was a member of the State Senate. In the following years, Willard was working as a journalist. He was publisher and editor of the newspaper " Montpelier Freeman ".

In the congressional elections of 1868 Willard was in the first district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frederick E. Woodbridge on March 4, 1869. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1875 a total of three legislative periods. In the first two terms from 1869 to 1873 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with claims from the time of the American Revolution. In the elections of 1874 he lost to Charles Herbert Joyce.

After the end of his time in Congress Willard again worked as a lawyer in Montpelier. In 1879 he was member of a commission to revise the laws of the State of Vermont. Charles Willard died in June 1880 in Montpelier. Since 24 August 1855, he was married to Emily Doane Reed, the couple had four children.

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