Charles Lee Faust (April 24, 1879 – December 17, 1928) was a

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from

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. Born near

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, Faust moved with his parents to a farm near

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. He attended the public schools and

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. He engaged in teaching in a country school near Highland in 1898–1900. He was graduated from the law department of the

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in 1903, was admitted to the bar the same year, and commenced the practice of his profession in St. Joseph, Missouri. City counselor of St. Joseph in 1915–1919. Faust was elected as a

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to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1921, until his death. He served as chairman of the Committee on the Census (Sixty-eighth Congress). Had been reelected to the Seventy-first Congress. He died December 17, 1928, at the United States Naval Hospital,

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He was interred in Highland Cemetery,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Faust, Charles Lee 1879 births 1928 deaths University of Kansas School of Law alumni Missouri city council members Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri

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