Charles Pelham (March 12, 1835 – January 18, 1908) was a
U.S. congressional representative from
Alabama
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Born in
Person County, North Carolina, Pelham moved with his parents to Alabama in 1838. There, he attended the common schools and later studied law. In 1858, he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Talladega, Alabama
Talladega (, also ) is the county seat of Talladega County, Alabama, United States. It was incorporated in 1835. At the 2020 census, the population was 15,861. Talladega is approximately east of one of the state’s biggest cities, Birmingham. ...
. After the beginning of the
U.S. Civil War
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, Pelham entered the
Confederate army
The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting ...
in 1862 and served as first lieutenant of Company C, Fifty-first Regiment, Alabama Infantry. After the war, he served as judge of the tenth judicial circuit of Alabama from 1868 until 1873.
Pelham was elected as a
Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875). When he was not renominated in 1874, Pelham resumed the practice of law in
Washington, D.C.
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Late in life, he was appointed a clerk in the Treasury Department.
In 1907, he moved to
Poulan, Georgia
Poulan is a city in Worth County, Georgia, United States. The population was 851 at the 2010 and 765 (2019) census.
Poulan is part of the Albany, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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, where he died the following year on January 18, 1908. He was interred in the Presbyterian Cemetery.
See also
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Samuel Taylor Suit
Samuel Taylor Suit (1832–1888) was a Maryland politician and landowner. Suit was born in Bladensburg, Maryland, the son of innkeeper Fielder Suit. At age 14 he left home and traveled first to Keokuk, Iowa, and then to Louisville, Kentucky. In Ken ...
, who married Pelham's daughter Rosa
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1835 births
1908 deaths
Confederate States Army officers
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama
19th-century American politicians
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