Charles Boyle Roberts

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Charles Boyle Roberts (April 19, 1842—September 10, 1899) was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland, serving the second district from 1875-1879.

Roberts was born in Uniontown, Maryland and was graduated from Calvert College of New Windsor, Maryland in 1861. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1864, commencing practice in Westminster, Maryland. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875—March 3, 1879), and, while in Congress, served as chairman of the Committee on Accounts (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses). He was later elected Attorney General of Maryland in 1883, serving one term. He was elected associate judge of the fifth judicial district in 1891. He was soon thereafter appointed chief judge of the district to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Miller, and, in 1893, was elected for the full term of fifteen years. Roberts died in Westminster, Maryland in 1899, and is interred in the Catholic Cemetery.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Preceded by: Stevenson Archer	U.S. Congressman from the 2nd district of Maryland 1875—1879	Succeeded by: J. Frederick C. Talbott
Preceded by: Charles J. M. Gwinn	Attorney General of Maryland 1883—1887	Succeeded by: William Pinkney Whyte