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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MaineCharles Addison BOUTELLE
(1839-1901)
BOUTELLE, Charles Addison,
a Representative from Maine; born in Damariscotta, Lincoln County,
Maine, February 9, 1839; attended the public schools at Brunswick
and the Yarmouth Academy; adopted the profession of shipmaster; in
the spring of 1862 volunteered and was appointed acting master in
the United States Navy; served in the North and South Atlantic and
West Gulf Squadrons; promoted to lieutenant, May 5, 1864;
participated in the capture of Mobile and in receiving surrender of
the Confederate Fleet; afterwards assigned to command of naval
forces in Mississippi Sound; honorably discharged January 14, 1866;
engaged in business in New York; became managing editor of the
Bangor (Maine) Whig and Courier in 1870 and purchased controlling
ownership in 1874; delegate to the Republican National Convention
at Cincinnati in 1876; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth
and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,
1883, until his resignation, March 3, 1901, before the commencement
of the Fifty-seventh Congress, to which he had been reelected;
chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Fifty-first Congress and
Fifty-fourth through Fifty-sixth Congresses); by joint resolution
of Congress on January 16, 1901, was placed on the retired list of
the Navy, with the rank of captain; died in Waverley, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 21, 1901; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery,
Bangor, Maine.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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