Charles A. Boyle

For other people of the same name, see Charles Boyle (disambiguation).

Charles A. Boyle (1907–1959) was a United States Congressman from Chicago's north side, representing the Illinois's 12th congressional district from 1959 until his death in an automobile accident in the early morning hours of November 4, 1959 . Born in Spring Lake, Michigan on August 13, 1907, Boyle was a Democrat, and the father of eight children at the time of his death. First elected in 1954, Boyle was in his third term an was on his way home after campaigning for his fellow Democrats in the November 3 elections. He was on his way home when his car crashed into an elevated train pillar on Northwestern Avenue. Police speculated that Boyle had either fallen asleep or had been cut off by another car.^[1] The 12th District went unrepresented for more than a year until after the 1960 general elections, when Democrat Edward Rowan Finnegan defeated Theodore P. Fields.

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References

1. ^ "Rep. Boyle, Illinois, Dies In Car Crash", Oshkosh (Wis.) Daily Northwestern, November 4, 1959, p. 1
2. ^ BOYLE, Charles Augustus - Biographical Information

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Name	Boyle, Charles A.
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Date of birth	1907
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Date of death	1959
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