Charles Robin Britt

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Charles Robin Britt (born in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas on June 29, 1942) is a former Member of the United States House of Representatives. A Democrat, he served one term from 1983 to 1985

Britt grew up in Asheville, North Carolina and graduated from Enka High School in 1959. He received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963 and a Juris Doctor from the same institution as well as an LL.M. degree from New York University in 1976. He was admitted to the North Carolina bar in 1973 and commenced practice in Greensboro. From 1963 until 1984, he was a member of the United States Naval Reserve.

Britt was a delegate to the North Carolina State Democratic convention in 1980 and was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth Congress (January 3, 1983 to January 3, 1985). He was unsuccessful in his 1984 bid for re-election and unsuccessful in an attempted 2002 comeback.

Britt served as president and director of Project Uplift in Greensboro, N.C. and as secretary of the North Carolina State department of human resources, 1993 to 1997.