Charles D. Drake, U.S. Senator

Charles Daniel Drake (April 11, 1811 – April 1, 1892) was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended St. Joseph's College (Bardstown, Kentucky) in 1823 and 1824, and Patridge's Military Academy (Middletown, Connecticut) in 1824 and 1825; he was appointed midshipman in the United States Navy in 1825 and served four years, when he resigned. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati in 1833 and moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1834 and continued the practice of law. Drake was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives in 1859-1860 and a member of the State constitutional convention in 1865; he was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1867, to December 19, 1870, when he resigned to accept a judicial position. While in the Senate he was chairman, Committee on Education (Forty-first Congress). He served in the senate alongside other Missouri senators John B. Henderson and Carl Schurz. He was appointed chief justice of the United States Court of Claims and held that position from 1870 to 1885, when he retired. He published a Treatise on the Law of Suits by Attachment in the United States (1854) and Union and Anti-Slavery Speeches (1864).

He died in Washington, D.C.; his remains were cremated and the ashes interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis.

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1 Works 2 Family 3 See also 4 References

Works

Drake, Charles D. (1891). Treatise on the Law of Suits by Attachment in the United States (7th ed.). Boston: Little, Brown and Co.. LCCN 14016517. Drake, Charles D. (1864). Unin and Anti-Slavery Speeches. Cincinnati: Applegate & Co.. LCCN 77083961.

Family

Charles D. Drake's father, Daniel Drake (1785–1852), was an American physician and author. His uncle, Benjamin Drake (1795–1841), was an American historian, editor, and writer.

See also

Biography portal United States Navy portal [edit]References

Charles D. Drake at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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Charles Daniel Drake (April 11, 1811 – April 1, 1892) was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended St. Joseph's College (Bardstown, Kentucky) in 1823 and 1824, and Patridge's Military Academy (Middletown, Connecticut) in 1824 and 1825; he was appointed midshipman in the United States Navy in 1825 and served four years, when he resigned. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati in 1833 and moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1834 and continued the practice of law.

Drake was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives in 1859-1860 and a member of the State constitutional convention in 1865; he was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1867, to December 19, 1870, when he resigned to accept a judicial position. While in the Senate he was chairman, Committee on Education (Forty-first Congress). He was appointed chief justice of the United States Court of Claims and held that position from 1870 to 1885, when he retired. He published a Treatise on the Law of Suits by Attachment in the United States (1854) and Union and Anti-Slavery Speeches (1864).

He died in Washington, D.C.; his remains were cremated and the ashes interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis.

Works

Drake, Charles D. (1891). Treatise on the Law of Suits by Attachment in the United States (7th ed. ed.). Boston: Little, Brown and Co.. LCCN 14-016517.

Drake, Charles D. (1864). Unin and Anti-Slavery Speeches. Cincinnati: Applegate & Co.. LCCN 77-083961.

Family

Charles D. Drake's father, Daniel Drake (1785–1852), was a American physician and author. His uncle, Benjamin Drake (1795–1841), was an American historian, editor, and writer.

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US Senator, Author, Constitutionalist. After serving for 3 years as a midshipman in the U.S. Navy, he was admitted to the bar in 1833. In 1850 he was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives and became well-known for his opposition to the secession movement. He was instrumental in passing measures for the better observance of the Sabbath in cities & for the abolition of a certain class of "concert saloons," prohibiting the employment of females in such establishments. In 1864 he was a presidential elector on the Lincoln ticket. He was a member and vice-president of the Constitutional Convention of 1863, as well as the author of the several clauses of the organic law it enacted requiring the test oath of loyalty as a qualification for jurors, voters, school teachers, lawyers & ministers. He was elected a U.S. Senator in 1867, and served on the committees on naval affairs, Pacific Railroad, contingent expenses and ordnance. During his term he caused an amendment to an appropriation bill declaring that no payment for damages sustained in the Civil War should be made unless the claimant had filed an oath that he had never been in rebellion against the U.S. government, which clause was afterward invalidated by the Supreme Court. In 1871 he was appointed Chief Justice of the United states Court of Claims by President Ulysses Grant.