Charles H. Page, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles H. Page

American politician

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1843

Place of Birth: Glocester, Rhode Island, United States

Date of Death: 21-Jul-1912

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Charles H. Page

  • Charles Harrison Page (July 19, 1843 – July 21, 1912) was a U.S.
  • Representative from Rhode Island. Born in Glocester, Rhode Island, Page attended public schools.
  • During the Civil War Page enlisted in the Union Army as a private at the age of nineteen in Company A, 12th Rhode Island Infantry, and was mustered out July 29, 1863.
  • He resumed his studies in the Illinois State Normal School at Bloomington and at Southern Illinois College at Carbondale.
  • He returned to Rhode Island in 1869 and taught in a school in Scituate until the spring of 1870, when he enrolled at the law department of the University of Albany, New York.
  • He graduated in 1871. Page was admitted to the bar the same year and started his practice in Scituate, and in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1872.
  • Later, he served as member of the State house of representatives in 1872 and 1873.
  • He also served in the State senate in 1874, 1875, 1884, 1885, and 1890.
  • He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress.
  • He also contested for the post of attorney general in 1879.
  • He served as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1880, 1884, and 1888.
  • He also contested as a Democrat in the election of William A.
  • Pirce to the Forty-ninth Congress, but the seat was declared vacant.
  • Page was subsequently elected at a special election to fill the vacancy and served from February 21 to March 3, 1887. Page was elected to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893).
  • He was reelected to the Fifty-third Congress at a special election (no candidate receiving a majority at the regular election), and served from April 5, 1893, to March 3, 1895.
  • He served as a chairman of the Committee on Manufactures (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses).
  • He was not a candidate for renomination in 1894. He resumed the practice of law until his death in Providence, Rhode Island, July 21, 1912.
  • He was buried in the Swan Point Cemetery.

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