Charles Cyrus Kearns
Charles Cyrus Kearns | |
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 Kearns in Washington, D.C. in 1916 | |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 6th district | |
| In office March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1931 | |
| Preceded by | Simeon D. Fess |
| Succeeded by | James G. Polk |
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| Born | February 11, 1869 Cincinnati Law School |
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Charles Cyrus Kearns (February 11, 1869 – December 17, 1931) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a
U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio
from 1915 to 1931.
Biography
Charles C. Kearns was born in Tonica, Illinois. He moved with his parents to Georgetown, Ohio, in 1874. He attended the public schools in Georgetown, Ohio, Ohio Northern University at Ada, and National Noral University in Lebanon, Ohio. He taught school in Brown County, Ohio.
He graduated from the
Cincinnati Law School in 1894, and was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Batavia, Ohio. He was the managing editor of the Las Vegas Daily Record in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in 1900 and 1901 and of the Daily Record in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1901 and 1902. He returned to Ohio in 1903 and practiced law in Batavia. He was the prosecuting attorney of Clermont County, Ohio
, from 1906 to 1909.
Congress
Kearns was elected as a Republican to the
1930 to the Seventy-second
Congress.
Later career and death
He was engaged in the practice of law at
Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1930, and died in Amelia, Ohio. Interment in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Tobasco, Ohio
.
Sources
- United States Congress. "Charles Cyrus Kearns (id: K000033)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- The Political Graveyard
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