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Charles Edmund Boyle Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 21st districtIn office
March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887Preceded by Morgan R. Wise Succeeded by Welty McCullogh Personal details Born February 4, 1836
Uniontown, PennsylvaniaDied December 15, 1888 (aged 52)Political party Democratic For other people of the same name, see Charles Boyle (disambiguation).Charles Edmund Boyle (February 4, 1836 – December 15, 1888) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Charles E. Boyle was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools, and Waynesburg College in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in December 1861 and practiced. He was elected district attorney for Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1862. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1865 and 1866. He was president of the Democratic State convention in 1867 and 1871, and a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876 and 1880.
Boyle was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1886. He was appointed judge of the Territory of Washington in September 1888 and served until his death in Seattle, Washington, in 1888. Interment in Oak Grove Cemetery in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
Sources
- Charles Edmund Boyle at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- The Political Graveyard
Preceded by
Morgan R. WiseMember of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district
1883 - 1887Succeeded by
Welty McCulloghCategories:- 1836 births
- 1888 deaths
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania lawyers
- Washington (state) state court judges
- People from Uniontown, Pennsylvania
- Waynesburg University alumni
- Pennsylvania United States Representative stubs
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