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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Farwell, Charles Benjamin
Farwell, Charles Benjamin, a Representative and a Senator from Illinois; born in Painted Post, Steuben County, N.Y., July 1, 1823; attended Elmira Academy; moved to Illinois in 1838 and settled in Mount Morris; employed in Government surveying and in farming until 1844, when he engaged in the real-estate business and banking in Chicago; clerk of Cook County 1853-1861; engaged in the wholesale dry-goods business; member of the State board of equalization in 1867; chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Cook County in 1868; national-bank examiner in 1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1875, until May 6, 1876, when he was succeeded by John V. Le Moyne, who contested his election; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1876; resumed mercantile pursuits; elected to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1882; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John A. Logan and served from January 19, 1887, until March 3, 1891; was not a candidate for reelection in 1891; resumed mercantile pursuits; died in Lake Forest, Ill., September 23, 1903; interment in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Farwell, Charles Benjamin," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1147 Original Sources, accessed December 9, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4UEMPQJ6GXAB6C4.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Farwell, Charles Benjamin." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1147, Original Sources. 9 Dec. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4UEMPQJ6GXAB6C4.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Farwell, Charles Benjamin' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1147. Original Sources, retrieved 9 December 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4UEMPQJ6GXAB6C4.
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