Charles Matthews was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania on October 15, 1856, and was employed by a rolling mill as a roll turner while attending night school.[3][4]
A delegate to the Republican State convention in 1886, he was a member of the city council from 1887 to 1893, and sheriff of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, from 1897 to 1900.[5]
He was then engaged in manufacturing and banking.[6]
Elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress, he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912, and resumed his work in banking.[7][8]
A delegate to the 1916 Republican National Convention in Chicago, he was appointed county commissioner of Lawrence County on November 26, 1924, and served until January 2, 1928.[9]
Death and intermentedit
Matthews died in New Castle on December 12, 1932, and was interred in the Graceland Cemetery.[10][11]
Referencesedit
^"Matthews, Charles" (M000252), in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Washington, D.C.: Offices of the Historians of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, March 18, 2023.
^"Matthews, Charles." Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Political Graveyard, May 10, 2022.
^"Matthews, Charles," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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