Pelham was born in Person County, North Carolina. Pelham moved with his parents to Alabama in 1838, where his brother John Pelham was born.[1] There, Charles Pelham attended the common schools and later studied law.
Legal careeredit
In 1858, he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Talladega, Alabama.
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After the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, Pelham entered the Confederate army in 1862 and served as first lieutenant of Company C, Fifty-first Regiment, Alabama Infantry.
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After the war, he served as judge of the tenth judicial circuit of Alabama from 1868 until 1873.
Congressedit
Pelham was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875).
Later careeredit
When he was not renominated in 1874, Pelham resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C. Late in life, he was appointed a clerk in the Treasury Department.
Deathedit
In 1907, he moved to Poulan, Georgia, where he died the following year on January 18, 1908. He was interred in the Presbyterian Cemetery.
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