Charles James Faulkner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles James Faulkner

American politician

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1847

Place of Birth: Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 13-Jan-1929

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Charles James Faulkner

  • Charles James Faulkner (September 21, 1847 – January 13, 1929) was a United States Senator from West Virginia and the son of Charles James Faulkner Sr., a U.S.
  • Representative from Virginia and West Virginia.
  • Born on the family estate, "Boydville," near Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), he accompanied his father, who was U.S.
  • Minister to France, to that country in 1859; he attended school in Paris and Switzerland.
  • He returned to the United States in 1861, and during the Civil War entered the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington in 1862.
  • He served with the cadets in the Battle of New Market and, after the war, graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, where he was a member of St.
  • Anthony Hall, in 1868.
  • He was admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced practice in Martinsburg. In 1887, Faulkner was elected as a Democrat to the U.S.
  • Senate; he was reelected in 1893 and served from March 4, 1887, to March 3, 1899.
  • While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Territories (Fifty-third Congress).
  • In 1898 he was appointed a member of the International Joint High Commission of the United States and Great Britain.
  • He retired from public life and devoted his time to the practice of law in Martinsburg and Washington, D.C., and to the management of his agricultural interests.
  • In 1922, he served as first president of the Opequon Golf Club.Faulkner died at the Boydville family estate in 1929; interment was in the Old Norbourne Cemetery, Martinsburg.

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