Charles B. Lore
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Charles Brown Lore (March 16, 1831 - March 6, 1911) was a United States Representative from Delaware. Born in Odessa, Delaware, he attended the public schools and Middletown Academy in Delaware. He was graduated from Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania) in June 1852, studied law, was admitted to the bar of New Castle County, Delaware in 1861 and practiced. He was clerk of the Delaware House of Representatives in 1857 and during the Civil War served as commissioner of the draft for New Castle County in 1862.
Lore was attorney general of Delaware from 1869 to 1874, and was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1883 to March 4, 1887. He was not a candidate for renomination, and was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of Delaware in 1893. He was reappointed in 1897 for a term of twelve years but retired in 1909. He was a member of the code commission in 1909 and 1910 and in 1911 died in Wilmington; remains were cremated and the ashes were deposited in the Methodist Church Cemetery.
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| Preceded by Edward L. Martin |
U.S. Representative from Delaware (at-large) March 4, 1883 – March 4, 1887 |
Succeeded by John B. Penington |
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