Curtis H. Castle

Curtis Harvey Castle ( born October 4, 1848 in Galesburg, Illinois, † July 12, 1928 in Santa Barbara, California ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Curtis Castle attended the common schools and then studied until 1872 at Northwestern University in Evanston. He then worked 1872-1876 as a teacher in Washington ( Texas). He then studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Keokuk (Iowa) medicine. Until 1882 he practiced in Iowa in his new profession. He then moved to California, where he first settled in Point Arena, and from 1888 in Merced and worked as a doctor. Between 1894 and 1896 he was a member of the American Academy of Medicine. Politically, Castle joined the Populist Party on. In Merced County, he was the chairman of the party. At the same time he was sitting in the State Board of his party.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Castle was in the seventh constituency of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William W. Bowers on March 4, 1897. Since he has not been confirmed in 1898, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1899. This was marked by the events of the Spanish-American War. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Curtis Castle practiced as a doctor again. He spent his life in Santa Barbara, where he died on 12 July 1928.