Charles St. John

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Charles St. John (October 8, 1818 - July 6, 1891) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born at Mount Hope, New York, St. John attended the common schools and Goshen and Newburgh (New York) Academies. He engaged in lumbering on the Delaware River and in mercantile pursuits and banking at Port Jervis, New York. He served as internal revenue collector and later as president of the Barrett Bridge Co..

St. John was elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875). He resumed his former business activities. He died in Port Jervis, New York, July 6, 1891. He was interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery.

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• Charles St. John at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

[edit] External links

• Charles St. John at Find A Grave