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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaBIDDLE, Charles John
(1819—1873)
BIDDLE, Charles John, (nephew of Richard Biddle), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 30, 1819; was graduated from Princeton College in 1837; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Philadelphia in 1840; served in the Mexican War and was brevetted major for meritorious services; resumed the practice of law in Philadelphia; entered the Union Army in 1861 as colonel of a regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of E. Joy Morris and served from July 2, 1861, to March 3, 1863; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; chairman of the Democratic State central committee in 1863; one of the proprietors and editor in chief of the Philadelphia Age until his death in Philadelphia September 28, 1873; interment in Old St. Peter’s Church Cemetery.
Bar of Philadelphia. Proceedings of a meeting of the Bar of Philadelphia relative to the death of Charles J. Biddle and a memoir of the deceased by the Hon. John Cadwalader, read before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
. Philadelphia: Collins, Printer, 1874.
Biddle, Charles John. The alliance with the negro
. [Washington: L. Towers & co., printers, 1862].
———. Eulogy upon the Hon. George Mifflin Dallas
. [Philadelphia: M’Laughlin brothers, printers, 1865].
Contributions to American history
. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & co., 1858.
Peirce, William S. Letter of Wm. S. Peirce, on the policy of the Republican Party—Col. Charles J. Biddle’s letter
. [Philadelphia: N.p., 1861].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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