Charles C. Ellsworth
| Charles C. Ellsworth | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 8th district |
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In office March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879 |
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| Preceded by | Nathan B. Bradley |
| Succeeded by | Roswell G. Horr |
| Member of the Michigan House of Representatives | |
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In office 1852–1854 |
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| Member of the Vermont General Assembly | |
| Personal details | |
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January 29, 1824 Berkshire, Vermont |
| Died | June 25, 1899 (aged 75) Greenville, Michigan |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Republican |
| Other political affiliations |
Democrat |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Gay Ellsworth |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Universalist, Methodist, Congregationalist |
Charles Clinton Ellsworth (January 29, 1824 – June 25, 1899) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Ellsworth was born in the village of West Berkshire in Berkshire, Vermont. His mother Bathama Ellsworth died when he was two years old. His father, William C. Ellsworth, was a native of Connecticut and moved to Vermont at an early age. He was a locally eminent physician and was several times elected to the Vermont General Assembly.
Charles Ellsworth attended the common schools in West Berkshire, as well as the academy at Bakersfield. He taught school in Vermont for one winter and then moved to Howell, Michigan to study law with his brother-in-law Josiah Turner, who was then a practicing attorney and would later become a county and circuit judge and sit on the Michigan Supreme Court.
Ellsworth taught school in Howell during the winter and studied law until he was admitted to the bar in 1848. He commenced practice in Howell and, in 1849, was appointed by Michigan Governor John S. Barry as prosecuting attorney of Livingston County. He moved to Montcalm County and settled in Greenville in the spring of 1851 and became the first practicing lawyer in the area. He was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 1852 and served a single two-year term. He was twice elected prosecuting attorney of Montcalm County, serving from 1853 to 1857. He had been a Democrat until the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 and the resulting violence sparked the formation of the Republican Party in 1856.
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