Charles F. Manderson

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Charles Frederick Manderson
John M. Thurston
Personal details
Born(1837-02-09)February 9, 1837
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedSeptember 28, 1911(1911-09-28) (aged 74)
Liverpool, England
Political partyRepublican
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Charles Frederick Manderson (February 9, 1837 – September 28, 1911) was a

United States senator from Nebraska
from 1883 to 1895.

Biography

Born in

city solicitor
of Canton.

Manderson entered the

first lieutenant, and rose through the ranks to resign as a colonel in 1865; he was also brevetted brigadier general of volunteers that year. He resumed the practice of law in Canton and was twice elected attorney of Stark County, Ohio
.

In 1869, he moved to

constitutional conventions in 1871 and in 1875. Manderson was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 1883, was reelected in 1888 and served from March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1895. During the Fifty-first, Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses, Manderson served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate
. He was also chairman of the Committee on Printing in the Forty-eighth through Fifty-second Congresses.

Manderson was appointed general solicitor of the

Liverpool, England
, on September 28, 1911, and was interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha.

References

U.S. Senate
Preceded by U.S. senator (Class 2) from Nebraska
March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1895
Served alongside: Charles H. Van Wyck, Algernon S. Paddock, William V. Allen
Succeeded by
John M. Thurston
Preceded by President pro tempore of the United States Senate
March 2, 1891 – March 22, 1893
Succeeded by