Charles Vernon Culver

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Charles Vernon Culver (September 6, 1830–January 10, 1909) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

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Charles V. Culver was born in Logan, Ohio. He received a liberal preparatory schooling and attended the Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. He moved to Pennsylvania and settled in Reno, Pennsylvania, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He also became interested in the development of oil in Venango County, Pennsylvania, and the establishment of national banks in thirteen cities throughout the East.

He was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1866. While a Member of Congress became bankrupt and was imprisoned in 1866, but after a prolonged trial was acquitted. He resumed operations in the oil business, with headquarters in Franklin, Pennsylvania. He died while on a business trip in Philadelphia in 1909. Interment in Franklin Cemetery in Franklin, Pennsylvania.

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Preceded by: Amos Myers	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district 1865-1867	Succeeded by: Darwin A. Finney