Charles Tatgenhorst Jr. (August 19, 1883 – January 13, 1961) was an American

lawyer A lawyer is a person who practices law. The role of a lawyer varies greatly across different legal jurisdictions. A lawyer can be classified as an advocate, attorney, barrister, canon lawyer, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, solic ...

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...

, and

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

who served one term as a

U.S. Representative The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they c ...

from

Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...

from 1927 to 1929.

Biography

Born in

Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

, Tatgenhorst was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati. He was graduated from

Cincinnati Law School The University of Cincinnati College of Law was founded in 1833 as the Cincinnati Law School. It is the fourth oldest continuously running law school in the United States — after Harvard, the University of Virginia, and Yale — and the first in ...

in 1910. He was

admitted to the bar An admission to practice law is acquired when a lawyer receives a license to practice law. In jurisdictions with two types of lawyer, as with barristers and solicitors, barristers must gain admission to the bar whereas for solicitors there are dist ...

the same year and commenced practice in Cincinnati. He served as assistant city solicitor for Cincinnati 1914–19. He moved to

Cleves, Ohio Cleves is a village in Miami Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, located along the Ohio River. The population was 3,234 at the 2010 census. Founded in 1818, it is named for John Cleves Symmes who lived here, laid out the original tow ...

, in 1919 and continued the practice of law. Tatgenhorst married Clara Streble and had one son Charles Robert Tatgenhorst who joined him in the practice of law.

Congress

Tatgenhorst was elected as a

Republican Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law. ** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...

to the Seventieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of

Ambrose E.B. Stephens Ambrose Everett Burnside Stephens (June 3, 1862 – February 12, 1927) was an American politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1919 to 1927. Early life and career Born in Crosby Township, Ohio, Stephens atten ...

and served from November 8, 1927, to March 3, 1929. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1928. He again resumed the practice of his profession in

Judicial career

Tatgenhorst was elected judge of the Ohio First District Court of Appeals on November 3, 1936, and served until February 8, 1937. Ohio State bar examiner 1938–1942. In January 1941 became a member of the Ohio State Banking Board.

Later career and death

He served as director of Cincinnati Street Railway Co. and Sullivan Electric Co.. He died in

, January 13, 1961. He was interred in

Spring Grove Cemetery Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum () is a nonprofit rural cemetery and arboretum located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the third largest cemetery in the United States, after the Calverton National Cemetery and Abraham L ...

Sources

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tatgenhorst, Charles, Jr 1883 births 1961 deaths Politicians from Cincinnati Ohio lawyers University of Cincinnati College of Law alumni Burials at Spring Grove Cemetery 20th-century American politicians People from Cleves, Ohio Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio 20th-century American judges