Charles J. Boatner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles J. Boatner

American politician

Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1849

Place of Birth: Columbia, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 21-Mar-1903

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Charles J. Boatner

  • Charles Jahleal Boatner (January 23, 1849 – March 21, 1903) was a U.S.
  • Representative from Louisiana. Born in Columbia in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, Boatner completed preparatory studies and the law.
  • He was admitted to the bar in 1870.
  • He was a member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1876 until May 1878. He married Frances Rowena Mayo, the daughter of Oren Mayo and Deborah J.
  • Spencer, of Louisiana.
  • Her father moved from Watertown, N.
  • Y., to Louisiana, about 1840.
  • Frances Rowena Mayo descendeded from Revolutionary parentage.
  • Her grandfather was an officer in the War of 1812, and his grandfather in the Revolution.
  • The family emigrated from England, not exactly on the Mayflower, but very soon thereafter.
  • Her grandfather on her mother's side — George Spencer — was a Virginian, whose lather was also an officer in the Revolutionary army.
  • One of his sisters was the wife of General Lewis Cass and another of General Hunt, of Toledo, Ohio.
  • Her father, Judge Oren Mayo, filled a number of offices in the State of Louisiana, having been successively Member of the State Legislature, State Senator, and for many years District and Circuit Judge.
  • One of her uncles, Judge W.
  • B.
  • Spencer, was a Member of Congress from the Fifth District of Louisiana, and afterward one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
  • Frances Rowena Mayo married Hon.
  • C.
  • J.
  • Boatner on the 27th of December, 1870.
  • They had five children — four sons and one daughter, Annie Josephine Boatner. Boatner was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1895). Presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress but on March 20, 1896, the House declared the seat vacant, the election having been contested by Alexis Benoit. In 1893, Boatner obtained a United States Navy appointment at the customhouse in New Orleans for State Representative Jefferson B.
  • Snyder of Madison Parish.Boatner was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the House declaring the seat vacant and served from June 10, 1896, to March 3, 1897.
  • He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1896.
  • Instead he moved to New Orleans to resume the practice of law.
  • He died there on March 21, 1903, and is interred at Monroe Cemetery, in Monroe, Louisiana.

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