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For other people named Charles Pittman, see Charles Pittman (disambiguation).
Charles Wesley Pitman (died June 8, 1871) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Charles Wesley Pitman was born in New Jersey. He graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1838. He moved to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, the same year and conducted a school for boys, known as the Pottsville Academy.
Pitman was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress. He later became affiliated with the Republican Party. He was engaged extensively in the lumber business. He was elected sheriff of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, in 1870 and served until his death in Pottsville in 1871. Interment in Presbyterian Cemetery.
Sources
- Charles Wesley Pitman at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- The Political Graveyard
United States House of Representatives Preceded by
George N. EckertMember of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district
1849 - 1851Succeeded by
Thomas M. BibighausCategories:- 1871 deaths
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- People from Pottsville, Pennsylvania
- American schoolteachers
- American Presbyterians
- Pennsylvania Whigs
- Pennsylvania United States Representative stubs
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