Charles Pelham (congressman)
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Charles Pelham | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 3rd district | |
In office March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875 | |
Preceded by | William A. Handley |
Succeeded by | Taul Bradford |
Personal details | |
Born | Charles Pelham March 12, 1835 Person County, North Carolina |
Died | January 18, 1908 Poulan, Georgia | (aged 72)
Political party | Republican |
Charles Pelham (March 12, 1835 – January 18, 1908) was an American lawyer, politician, and Confederate Civil War veteran who served one term as a U.S. congressional representative from Alabama from 1873 to 1875.
Biography
[edit]Pelham was born in Person County, North Carolina. Pelham moved with his parents to Alabama in 1838, where his brother John Pelham was born.[1] There, Charles Pelham attended the common schools and later studied law.
Legal career
[edit]In 1858, he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Talladega, Alabama.
Civil War
[edit]After the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, Pelham entered the Confederate army in 1862 and served as first lieutenant of Company C, Fifty-first Regiment, Alabama Infantry.
Judge
[edit]After the war, he served as judge of the tenth judicial circuit of Alabama from 1868 until 1873.
Congress
[edit]Pelham was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875).
Later career
[edit]When he was not renominated in 1874, Pelham resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C. Late in life, he was appointed a clerk in the Treasury Department.
Death
[edit]In 1907, he moved to Poulan, Georgia, where he died the following year on January 18, 1908. He was interred in the Presbyterian Cemetery.
See also
[edit]- Samuel Taylor Suit, who married Pelham's daughter Rosa
References
[edit]- ^ "John Pelham". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Alliance. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
- United States Congress. "Charles Pelham (id: P000192)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
External links
[edit]- Charles Pelham. Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Alliance.
- 1835 births
- 1908 deaths
- People from Person County, North Carolina
- Alabama lawyers
- Confederate States Army officers
- Alabama state court judges
- Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama
- 19th-century American legislators
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- People from Worth County, Georgia
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