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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsCharles Laceille GIFFORD
(1871-1947)
GIFFORD, Charles Laceille,
a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Cotuit, Barnstable
County, Mass., March 15, 1871; attended the common schools; taught
school in Massachusetts and Connecticut from 1890 to 1900; engaged
in the real estate business in 1900 on Cape Cod and later became
interested in the propagation of oysters and the raising of
cranberries; member of the State house of representatives in 1912
and 1913; served in the State senate 1914-1919; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Joseph Walsh and on the same day was elected
to the Sixty-eighth Congress; reelected to the Sixty-ninth and to
the eleven succeeding Congresses and served from November 7, 1922,
until his death at Cotuit, Mass., August 23, 1947; chairman,
Committee on Elections No. 3 (Sixty-ninth and Seventieth
Congresses), Committee on Election of President, Vice President,
and Representatives (Seventy-first Congress); interment in Mosswood
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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