Charles Case (December 21, 1817 – June 30, 1883) was an American lawyer who served two terms as a
U.S. Representative
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from
Indiana from 1857 to 1861.
Biography
Case was born in
Austinburg, Ohio
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; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Fort Wayne
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,
Indiana.
Congress
He was elected as a
Republican to the
Thirty-fifth United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Samuel Brenton
Samuel Brenton (November 22, 1810 – March 29, 1857) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana; born in Gallatin County, Kentucky. Attended the public schools; was ordained to the Methodist ministry in 1830 and served as a minister; located at Danv ...
; reelected to the
Thirty-sixth United States Congress
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and served from December 7, 1857, to March 3, 1861; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1860 to the
Thirty-seventh United States Congress.
Later career and death
During the
Civil War, he served as first lieutenant and adjutant of the Forty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry; subsequently became a major in the Third Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, and served from November 26, 1861, - August 15, 1862.
He later resumed the practice of his profession in
Washington, D.C.
He died in Brighton,
Washington County, Iowa; interment in the
Congressional Cemetery,
Washington, D.C.
Footnotes
Further reading
* Peggy Seigel, "Charles Case: A Radical Republican in the Irrepressible Conflict," ''Indiana Magazine of History,'' vol. 107, no. 4 (Dec. 2011), pp. 327–360
In JSTOR
External links
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1817 births
1883 deaths
People from Austinburg, Ohio
Burials at the Congressional Cemetery
People of Indiana in the American Civil War
19th-century American legislators
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana