Charles Addison Chickering (November 26, 1843 – February 13, 1900) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
New York
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.
Life
Born in
Harrisburg, New York, Chickering attended the common schools and
Lowville Academy and was for some time a teacher in that institution. He engaged in business as a hardware merchant. He served as school commissioner of
Lewis County 1865–1875. He was a member of the
New York State Assembly
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The Ass ...
for Lewis County in
1879
Events January
* January 1
** The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War.
** Brahms' Violin Concerto is premiered in Leipzig with Joseph Joachim ...
,
1880
Events
January
*January 27 – Thomas Edison is granted a patent for the incandescent light bulb. Edison filed for a US patent for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected ... to platina contact wires." gr ...
and
1881
Events January
* January 1– 24 – Siege of Geok Tepe: Russian troops under General Mikhail Skobelev defeat the Turkomans.
* January 13 – War of the Pacific – Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos: The Chilean army ...
and was Clerk of the Assembly from 1884 to 1890. He served as chairman of the Lewis County Republican committee. He served as member of the
Republican State committee, serving as secretary, and as a member of its executive committee.
Chickering was elected as a
Republican to the
Fifty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1893, until his accidental death from injuries received in a fall from a window of the Grand Union Hotel in New York City while on a business trip on February 13, 1900. He served as chairman of the Committee on Railways and Canals (
Fifty-fourth through
Fifty-sixth Congresses). He was interred in Riverside Cemetery in
Copenhagen, New York.
See also
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References
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1843 births
Accidental deaths from falls in the United States
Accidental deaths in New York (state)
Hardware merchants
1900 deaths
Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
People from Lewis County, New York
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
Clerks of the New York State Assembly
19th-century New York (state) politicians
19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
19th-century members of the New York State Legislature