Charles Pelham (congressman)
Charles Pelham (March 12, 1835 – January 18, 1908) was an American lawyer, politician, and  Confederate  Civil War veteran who served one term as a U.S. congressional representative from Alabama from 1873 to 1875.

Biography 
Born in Person County, North Carolina, Pelham moved with his parents to Alabama in 1838. There, he attended the common schools and later studied law.

Legal career 
In 1858, he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Talladega, Alabama.

Civil War 
After the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, Pelham entered the Confederate army in 1862 and served as first lieutenant of Company C, Fifty-first Regiment, Alabama Infantry.

Judge 
After the war, he served as judge of the tenth judicial circuit of Alabama from 1868 until 1873.

Congress 
Pelham was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875).

Later career 
When he was not renominated in 1874, Pelham resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C. Late in life, he was appointed a clerk in the Treasury Department.

Death 
In 1907, he moved to Poulan, Georgia, where he died the following year on January 18, 1908. He was interred in the Presbyterian Cemetery.

See also

 Samuel Taylor Suit, who married Pelham's daughter Rosa

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1835 births
1908 deaths
Confederate States Army officers
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama
19th-century American politicians