Charles Delano (June 24, 1820 – January 23, 1883) was a

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, Delano moved with his parents to Amherst in 1833. He attended the common schools and graduated from Amherst College in 1840, where he studied law. Delano was

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in 1842 and commenced practice in Amherst. He moved to Northampton in 1848 and continued the practice of law. He served as Treasurer of Hampshire County from 1849 to 1858. Delano was elected as a

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to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862, and resumed the practice of law. In 1874, Delano was appointed to be an assistant coroner for the inquest into deaths that resulted from a dam break on the Mill River, which caused a flood in

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. Later he served as a trustee of the Clarke School for the Education of the Deaf from 1877 to 1883. Delano was appointed by Governor Alexander H. Rice in 1878 to act as special counsel for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in matters relating to the

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and the

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, and served in this capacity until his death in Northampton on January 23, 1883. He was interred in Bridge Street Cemetery.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Delano, Charles 1820 births 1883 deaths Amherst College alumni People from New Braintree, Massachusetts Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts 19th-century American politicians