Charles Cyrus Kearns (February 11, 1869 – December 17, 1931) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Republican member of the

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from

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from 1915 to 1931.

Biography

Charles C. Kearns was born in

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. He moved with his parents to

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, in 1874. He attended the public schools in Georgetown, Ohio,

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, and National Noral University in

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. He taught school in

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. He graduated from the

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in 1894, and was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in

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. He was the managing editor of the ''Las Vegas Daily Record'' in

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, in 1900 and 1901 and of the ''Daily Record'' in

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, in 1901 and 1902. He returned to Ohio in 1903 and practiced law in Batavia. He was the prosecuting attorney of

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, from 1906 to 1909.

Congress

Kearns was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the seven succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in

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to the Seventy-second Congress.

Later career and death

He was engaged in the practice of law at

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, in 1930, and died in

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. Interment in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Tobasco, Ohio.

Sources

The Political Graveyard
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kearns, Charles Cyrus 1869 births 1931 deaths People from Tonica, Illinois Ohio Northern University alumni University of Cincinnati College of Law alumni People from Georgetown, Ohio People from Batavia, Ohio National Normal University alumni County district attorneys in Ohio Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives