Charles Alexander Korbly (March 24, 1871 – July 26, 1937) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a

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from

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from 1909 to 1915.

Early life

Charles Alexander Korbly was born on March 24, 1871, in

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. Korbly attended the parochial schools of Madison and St. Joseph's College, near

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. He worked as a reporter and editor of the ''Madison Herald''. He studied law, was

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in 1892.

Career

Korbly commenced practice in

. He moved to

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, in 1895 and continued the practice of law under his father's law firm, Smith & Korbly. After his father's death in 1900, he practiced law with Alonzo Green Smith until 1902. Korbly was elected as a

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to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1915). He served as chairman of the Committee on Railways and Canals (Sixty-second Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress. He served as receiver general of insolvent national banks in

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, from 1915 to 1917. He served as member of the legal staff of the

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in 1918. He served with the National War Labor Board until it dissolved in 1919 and with the

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until 1922. He resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., in 1922. He also engaged in literary pursuits.

Personal life and death

Korbly married Isabel Stephens Palmer on June 10, 1902. She was the granddaughter of Nathan B. Palmer, speaker of the

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and

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. Together, they had five children: Richard, Charles, Edward, Elizabeth and Mrs. Arthur T. Cain. Later in life, he lived in Mohican Hills (part of

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). Korbly died in Washington, D.C., on July 26, 1937. He was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

References

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