Charles Sampson Hartman (March 1, 1861 – August 3, 1929) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Hartman attended the public schools and

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in Crawfordsville. He moved to

Bozeman, Montana Bozeman ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Gallatin County, Montana, United States. The 2020 United States census put Bozeman's population at 53,293, making it Montana's fourth-largest city. It is the principal city of the Bozeman, Montan ...

, in January 1882. He studied law and was

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in 1884, and began practicing in Bozeman. He was a probate judge of Gallatin County 1884–1886. He served as member of the State constitutional convention in 1889. Hartman was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses. He was reelected as a Silver Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1893, to March 3, 1899. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1898. He served as delegate to the

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. He resumed the practice of law. He became affiliated with the Democratic Party in 1900. He served as delegate to the

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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election as a

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in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress. He was appointed

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in July 1913 and served until May 14, 1922, when he returned to Bozeman. He moved to Great Falls in 1926 and resumed the practice of law. He moved to Fort Benton in 1927, having been appointed judge of the twelfth judicial district of Montana on March 3, 1927. Hartman was elected to the same office in 1928, and served until his death in Great Falls, on August 3, 1929. He was interred in Riverside Cemetery in Fort Benton.

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