Charles B. Law
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Charles Blakeslee Law (February 5, 1872 - September 15, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in Hannibal, New York, Law attended the public schools. He was graduated from Colgate Academy, Hamilton, New York, in 1891, and from Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1895. He studied law in Rome, New York, and at Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York. He was admitted to the bar in Rochester, New York, in 1897. He moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1898 and commenced the practice of law.
Law was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1911). He served as chairman of the Committee on War Claims (Sixty-first Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910. He resumed the practice of law in the Borough of Brooklyn, New York City. Sheriff of Kings County 1912 and 1913. He served as justice of the municipal court of the city of New York from January 1, 1916, to January 1, 1926. He again resumed the practice of law in Brooklyn, New York, and also engaged in banking. He died while swimming at his summer home on Kattskill Bay, near Lake George, New York, on September 15, 1929. He was interred in Maple Grove Cemetery, New York.
