Charles Wesley Pitman

American politician
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IntroAmerican politician
PlacesUnited States of America
wasPolitician Teacher
Work fieldAcademia Politics
Gender
Male
Birth1900, Pottsville
Death8 June 1871 (aged -29 years)
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Biography

Charles Wesley Pitman (died June 8, 1871) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
He was born in New Jersey. He graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1838. He moved to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, the same year and conducted a school for boys, known as the Pottsville Academy.
Pitman was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress. He later became affiliated with the Republican Party. He was engaged extensively in the lumber business. He was elected sheriff of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, in 1870 and served until his death in Pottsville in 1871. Interment in Presbyterian Cemetery.

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