Born in Nantucket, he was a lawyer and in 1844 became a judge of the common pleas court of New York, and then a county judge from 1851 to 1855. He was a member of the New York Senate from 1862 to 1869 and a delegate to the N.Y. constitutional convention in 1867. He was also a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1868.
Charles James Folger (April 16, 1818–September 4, 1884) was an American politician, jurist and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
Born in Nantucket, he was a lawyer and in 1844 became a judge of the common pleas court of New York, and then a county judge from 1851 to 1855.
He was a judge for the New York Court of Appeals from 1870 to 1880, and chief judge of that body from 1880 to 1881, when he was appointed United States Secretary of the Treasury serving until his death at Geneva, New York while still in office in 1884.
Charles Julius Guiteau (September 8, 1841 _ June 30, 1882) was an American lawyer with a history of mental illness who assassinated President James Garfield on July 2, 1881 (although he did not die until 19 September).
Charles Warren Fairbanks (May 11, 1852 â June 4, 1918) was a Senator from Indiana and the twenty-sixth Vice President of the United States.
Charles Curtis Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 â February 8, 1936) was a Representative and a Senator from Kansas as well as the 31st Vice President of the United States.