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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisBOYLE, Charles Augustus
(1907—1959)
BOYLE, Charles Augustus, a Representative from Illinois; born in Spring Lake, Ottawa County, Mich., August 13, 1907; after leaving the farm of his parents he graduated from Mount Carmel High School, Chicago, Ill., in 1925; worked for the Chicago Motor Coach Co. while a student; was graduated from Loyola University, Chicago, Ill., in 1930 and from Loyola Law School in 1933; was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1934 and commenced the practice of law in Chicago, Ill.; zone attorney for the Federal Housing Administration in 1937 and 1938; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, and Eighty-sixth Congresses and served from January 3, 1955, until his death in an automobile accident in Chicago, Ill., November 4, 1959; interment in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Ill.
United States. Congress (86th, 2nd session: 1960). Memorial services held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of Charles Augustus Boyle, late a Representative from Illinois
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1960.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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