Charles B. Sedgwick
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Charles Baldwin Sedgwick (March 15, 1815 - February 3, 1883) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in Pompey, New York, Sedgwick attended Pompey Hill Academy, and Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Syracuse, New York.
Sedgwick was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863). He served as chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs (Thirty-seventh Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1862. He engaged for the next two years in codifying naval laws for the Navy Department at Washington, D.C.. He resumed the practice of law in Syracuse, New York, where he died February 3, 1883. He was interred in Oakwood Cemetery.
