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Senate Years of Service: 1911-1923 Party: Republican
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TOWNSEND, Charles Elroy, a Representative and a Senator from Michigan; born near Concord, Jackson
County, Mich., August 15, 1856; attended the common schools in Concord and Jackson and the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; taught school at Concord 1881-1886; register of deeds
1886-1897; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced the practice of his profession
in Jackson, Mich.; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1903-March 3, 1911); elected to the United States Senate in 1910; reelected in 1916 and
served from March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922;
chairman, Committee on Coast and Insular Survey (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on
Expenditures in the War Department (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Post Office and Post Roads
(Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses); appointed in 1923 as a member of the International 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 in Jackson, Mich., August 3, 1924; interment in
Maple Grove Cemetery, Concord, Mich.
BibliographySchlup, Peonard. Party Loyalist: Charles E. Townsend
and the Vice-Presidential Election of 1912. Research Journal of Philosophy & Social
Sciences (1992): 61-70.
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