Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949

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Elston, Charles Henry

Elston, Charles Henry, a Representative from Ohio; born in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, August 1, 1891; attended the public and high schools of Marietta and Cincinnati, Ohio; was graduated from the Y. M. C. A. Law School, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1914; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio; assistant prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County, Ohio, 1915-1922; member of the faculty of the Y. M. C. A. Law School 1916-1936; during the First World War served as an aviation cadet in the aviation service of the United States Army in 1918; member of the Hamilton County charter commission; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1949). Reelected to the Eighty-first Congress.

ELSTON, John Arthur, a Representative from California; born in Woodland, Yolo County, Calif., February 10, 1874; attended the public schools; was graduated from Hesperian College, Woodland, Calif., in 1892 and the University of California at Berkeley in 1897; engaged in educational work; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced practice in Berkeley, Calif.; executive secretary to the Governor of California 1903-1907; member of the board of trustees of the State Institution for the Deaf and Blind 1911-1914; elected as a Progressive Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death in Washington, D.C., December 15, 1921; remains were cremated in Oakland, Calif., and the ashes placed in the California Crematorium at Oakland.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Elston, Charles Henry," 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.1131 Original Sources, accessed March 29, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LLYKCZZ9NID65EV.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Elston, Charles Henry." 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.1131, Original Sources. 29 Mar. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LLYKCZZ9NID65EV.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Elston, Charles Henry' 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.1131. Original Sources, retrieved 29 March 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LLYKCZZ9NID65EV.