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Charles J. Folger
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| In office November 14, 1881 – September 4, 1884 |
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| President | Chester A. Arthur |
| Preceded by | William Windom |
| Succeeded by | Walter Quintin Gresham |
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| Born | April 16, 1818 Nantucket, Massachusetts |
| Died | September 4, 1884 (aged 66) |
Charles James Folger (April 16, 1818 Nantucket, Massachusetts - September 4, 1884 Geneva, Ontario County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1881 until his death.
Life
His family removed to Geneva, N.Y., in 1830. He graduated from Hobart College in 1836. Then he sudied law with Mark H. Sibley and Alvah Worden at Canandaigua, N.Y., and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He commenced practice in Lyons, N.Y., but returned to Geneva, N.Y., in 1840, and became a Justice of the Peace.
He was First Judge of the Ontario County Court from 1844 to 1845 and from 1852 to 1855.
He was a Republican member of the New York State Senate from 1862 to 1869, a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867, and a delegate to the 1868 Republican National Convention. In 1869, he resigned from the State Senate and was appointed Assistant United States Treasurer in New York City by President Ulysses S. Grant.
In 1870, he was elected one of the first judges of the re-organized New York Court of Appeals. After the death of Sanford E. Church, Folger was appointed Chief Judge by Governor Alonzo B. Cornell on May 20, 1880, and in November was elected on the Republican ticket to a 14-year term to succeed himself as Chief Judge.
He resigned from the bench when he was appointed United States Secretary of the Treasury in 1881 by President Chester A. Arthur. As sitting U.S. Secretary, he ran unsuccessfully for Governor of New York, being defeated by Democrat Grover Cleveland.
Folger died in office in 1884 at his home on Main street in Geneva, N.Y. He was buried at Geneva, at the side of his wife who had died seven years earlier.
Sources
- [1] Political Graveyard
- [2] Appointed Secretary of the Treasury, in NYT on October 28, 1881, with short bio
- [3] Obit in nYT on September 5, 1884
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 362; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
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| Preceded by Sanford E. Church |
Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals 1880 – 1881 |
Succeeded by Charles Andrews |
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| Preceded by William Windom |
United States Secretary of the Treasury 1881–1884 |
Succeeded by Walter Q. Gresham |
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