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Charles R. Eckert (January 20, 1868 – October 26, 1959) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Charles Richard Eckert was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Piersol's Academy at West Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, and Geneva College at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in Beaver, Pennsylvania. He was a delegate to the 1928 Democratic National Convention.
Eckert was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938.
After his time in Congress, he served as a member of board of directors of the Beaver Trust Co., and resumed the practice of law until his death, aged 91, as the result of an automobile accident in Rochester, Pennsylvania.
Sources
- Charles R. Eckert at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- The Political Graveyard
United States House of Representatives Preceded by
J. Howard SwickMember of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district
1935-1939Succeeded by
Louis E. GrahamCategories:- 1868 births
- 1959 deaths
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania lawyers
- Politicians from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Road accident deaths in Pennsylvania
- Geneva College alumni
- Pennsylvania United States Representative stubs
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