Charles F. Manderson
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Charles Frederick Manderson | |
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John M. Thurston | |
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Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | February 9, 1837
Died | September 28, 1911 Liverpool, England | (aged 74)
Political party | Republican |
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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
- United States Congress. "Charles F. Manderson (id: M000095)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved September 28, 2008.