Charles G. Washburn
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Charles Grenfill Washburn was a Member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on January 28, 1857; was graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1875 and from Harvard University in 1880; studied law; was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887; connected with various manufacturing enterprises in Worcester; member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1897 and 1898; served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1899 and 1900; member of the committee to revise the corporation laws of Massachusetts in 1902; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1904 and 1916; was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rockwood Hoar; reelected to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses and served from December 18, 1906, to March 3, 1911; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; president of the Washburn Co. of Worcester, until his death at Lenox, Massachusetts, May 25, 1928; interment in Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Haynes, George Henry. The Life of Charles G. Washburn. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931.
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| Preceded by Rockwood Hoar |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district December 18, 1906 – March 3, 1911 |
Succeeded by John A. Thayer |
