Charles Dewey (Indiana Politician)
Charles Dewey may refer to: * Charles Melville Dewey (1849–1937), American painter * Charles Almon Dewey (1877–1958), judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa *Charles Augustus Dewey (1793–1866), Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court *Charles S. Dewey (1880–1980), American politician from Illinois *Charles Dewey (Indiana judge) Charles Dewey (March 6, 1784 – April 25, 1862) was a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from May 30, 1836, to January 29, 1847. Born in Sheffield, Massachusetts,Minde C. Browning, Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt,Biographical Sketches ...

Charles Melville Dewey
Charles Melville Dewey (1849–1937) was an American tonalist painter. He was born in Lowville, New York. Confined to his bed from his twelfth to his seventeenth year by a hip disease, he formed the poetic conception of nature which appears in his pictures. He studied in the schools of the National Academy of Design, New York (1874–76), and in Paris under Carolus-Duran, whom he assisted to paint a ceiling in the Louvre. In 1878 he returned to New York. Dewey's work has much highly individual, poetic sentiment and generally depicts subdued morning and evening effects. His landscapes in oil and water color are in many public galleries and private collections in the United States. Among his best are: * ''Indian Summer'' and ''A November Evening'' (1904) * ''Morning Bay of St.Ives'' and ''The Brook'' (1905) * ''The Edge of the Forest'' (formerly Corcoran Gallery, Washington) * ''The Harvest Moon'' and ''The Close of Day'' (National Gallery, Washington) * ''The Gray Robe of ...
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Charles Almon Dewey
Charles Almon Dewey (September 11, 1877 – March 2, 1958) was a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Education and career Born in Washington, Iowa, Washington, Iowa, Dewey attended Oberlin College in Ohio."Ex-Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey Dead at Age 80," ''Cedar Rapids Gazette'', 1958-03-03, at p. 4. He was a Corporal in the United States Volunteers during the Spanish–American War. In 1901, he received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Iowa College of Law, and entered private practice in Washington, Iowa. He was city attorney of Washington from 1905 to 1909, and county attorney for Washington County, Iowa, Washington County, Iowa from 1909 to 1915. From 1918 to 1928, he served as a state district court judge in Iowa's sixth judicial district. Federal judicial service In 1927, a backlog of unresolved cases had developed in the United States District Court for the Southern Dist ...
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