Charles G. Myers (1810 – December 27, 1881) was an American lawyer and politician.

Life

Myers was born in 1810 in

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. He attended St. Lawrence Academy in

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. In 1825, he began to study law in the office of Gouverneur Ogden in Waddington, was admitted to the bar in 1832, and practiced law in Ogdensburg. He was Surrogate of St. Lawrence County from 1844 to 1847. In 1847 he was living at Oswegatchie. He was a member from St. Lawrence County of the New York State Assembly in 1848."Charles G. Myers", ''

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'' (December 30, 1881), p. 5.Profile
politicalgraveyard.com; accessed December 4, 2014. He was a member of the

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until 1848, when he abandoned this affiliation over the issue of slavery, becoming a

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. He was District Attorney of St. Lawrence County from 1848 to 1853. Aside from his legal career, Myers was also a businessman, and a director of the Great Northern Lead Company, which was incorporated on September 8, 1852 at Rossie, New York and operated a lead mine for a few years.
History of Rossie, NY
' Gates Curtis (ed.), The Boston History Co., 1894. He was

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from 1860 to 1861, elected on the

and American tickets. He was a canal appraiser from 1873 to 1879. Myers died in Ogdensburg at the age of 71.

References

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
''A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time''
by Franklin Benjamin Hough (Little & Co., 1853)
''Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1861''
by William D. Murphy (1861; pages 27ff) 1810 births 1881 deaths Businesspeople from New York (state) New York State Attorneys General Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly St. Lawrence County district attorneys People from St. Lawrence County, New York New York (state) Know Nothings 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American businesspeople {{NewYork-NYAssembly-stub