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Charles E. Townsend | |
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.jpg) Townsend in 1921 | |
| United States Senator fromMichigan | |
| In office March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1923 | |
| Preceded by | Julius C. Burrows |
| Succeeded by | Woodbridge N. Ferris |
| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMichigan's2nd district | |
| In office March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1911 | |
| Preceded by | Henry C. Smith |
| Succeeded by | William Wedemeyer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1856-08-15)August 15, 1856 |
| Died | August 3, 1924(1924-08-03) (aged 67) |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
Charles Elroy Townsend (August 15, 1856 – August 3, 1924) was an American lawyer who served as both aU.S. Representative andU.S. Senator from thestate ofMichigan. He served in theUnited States Congress from 1903 to 1923.
Townsend was born on August 15. 1856, nearConcord, Michigan and attended the common schools in Concord andJackson and theUniversity of Michigan atAnn Arbor. He taught school at Concord 1881-1886 and wasJackson CountyRegister of Deeds 1886–1897. He studied law and was admitted to thebar in 1895 and commenced practice in Jackson.
Townsend was elected as aRepublican to theUnited States House of Representatives for theFifty-eighth and for the three succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1911.[1]
He was elected to theUnited States Senate in 1910 and was reelected in 1916, serving from March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1923. In 1914, and while holding the office of Senator, he was on the Central Committee of the First National Conference on Race Betterment, a conference on eugenics held at the Battle Creek Sanatorium.[2] He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922. He was chairman of theU.S. Senate Committee on Coast and Insular Survey in theSixty-second Congress, the U.S. Senate Committee on Expenditures in the War Department in theSixty-fifth Congress, and the U.S. Senate Committee on Post Office and Post Roads in theSixty-sixth andSixty-seventh Congresses.
Townsend was appointed in 1923 as a member of theInternational Joint Commission created to regulate the use of the boundary waters between the United States and Canada, in which capacity he served until his death on August 3, 1924, inJackson, Michigan. He is interred in Maple Grove Cemetery, in Concord.
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| First | Republican nominee forU.S. Senator fromMichigan (Class 1) 1916,1922 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | United States Representative for the 2nd Congressional District of Michigan 1903–1911 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | U.S. Senator (Class 1) from Michigan 1911–1923 | Succeeded by |
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