Charles RICH, Congress, VT (1771-1824)

RICH, Charles, a Representative from Vermont; born in Warwick, Hampshire County, Mass., on September 13, 1771; received a limited schooling; moved to Shoreham, Addison County, Vt., in 1787; member of the state house of representatives 1800-1811; was county judge for six years; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); elected to the Fifteenth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1817, until his death in Shoreham, Vt., on October 15, 1824; interment in the family vault on his farm near Shoreham, Vt.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present