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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MichiganBELKNAP, Charles Eugene
(1846—1929)
BELKNAP, Charles Eugene, a Representative from Michigan; born in Massena, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., October 17, 1846; attended the common schools; Twenty-first Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, 1864-1865; manufactured wagons and sleighs; member of the board of education of Grand Rapids, Mich., 1871-1878; served on the board of aldermen, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1880-1882; mayor of Grand Rapids, Mich., 1884; hospital executive; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); was not a candidate for renomination to the Fifty-second Congress in 1890; elected to the Fifty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Melbourne H. Ford (November 3, 1891-March 3, 1893); unsuccessfully contested the election to the Fifty-third Congress; staff duty at Fort Oglethorpe during the Spanish-American War; died on January 16, 1929, in Grand Rapids, Mich.; interment in the Greenwood Cemetery.
Belknap, Charles Eugene. Bentonville: what a bummer knows about it. Prepared by Companion Brevet Major Charles E. Belknap ... read at the stated meeting of January 4, 1893
. [Washington: N.p., 1893].
———. History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863
. Lansing, Mich.: R. Smith printing co., 1897.
———. The legend of the trailing arbutus
. [Grand Rapids: The Dean-Hicks press, 1924].
———. Recollections of a bummer. Prepared by companion Major Charles E. Belknap ... and read at the stated meeting of January 5, 1898
. [Washington: N.p., 1898].
———. The yesterdays of Grand Rapids
. Grand Rapids: The Dean-Hicks company, 1922.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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