Charles B. Sedgwick

Charles Baldwin Sedgwick (March 15, 1815 - February 3, 1883) was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.

Biography

Sedgwick was born in Pompey, New York, and attended Pompey Hill Academy, and Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Syracuse, New York.

Sedgwick was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs (Thirty-seventh Congress) but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1862.

He engaged for the next two years in codifying naval laws for the Navy Department at Washington, D.C. and then resumed the practice of law in Syracuse, New York.

He died February 3, 1883 in Syracuse, New York and is buried there in Oakwood Cemetery.

References

• Charles B. Sedgwick at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2009-03-31

External links

Biography portal

• "Charles B. Sedgwick". Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7730726. Retrieved 2009-03-31. 

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by [[]]	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York ? – ?	Succeeded by [[]]

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Name	Sedgwick, Charles Baldwin
Alternative names
Short description	American lawyer and politician
Date of birth	March 15, 1815
Place of birth	Pompey, New York
Date of death	February 3, 1883
Place of death	Syracuse, New York