Charles B. Hoard

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Charles Brooks Hoard (June 5, 1805 - November 20, 1886) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Springfield, Vermont, Hoard attended the public schools. He moved to Antwerp, New York, where he was postmaster during the administrations of Jackson and Van Buren. He served as member of the State assembly in 1837. He moved to Watertown, New York, in January 1844. He served as clerk of Jefferson County 1844-1846.

Hoard was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861). He engaged in the manufacture of portable engines and, during the Civil War, the manufacture of arms for the Government. He moved to West Virginia in 1870. He died in Ceredo, W.Virginia, November 20, 1886. He was interred in Spring Hill Cemetery, Huntington, W.Virginia.

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• Charles B. Hoard at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress