Charles F. McLaughlin

Charles Francis McLaughlin (June 19, 1887 – February 5, 1976) was an American Democratic politician.

Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, he graduated from University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1908 and the law department of Columbia University, New York City in 1910. He was admitted to the bar in 1910 and set up practice in Omaha, Nebraska. He was a special master in Chancery for the Federal Court from 1916 to 1918. During World War I he served as a captain of the 347th Field Artillery, 91st Division, American Expeditionary Forces, until his discharge, April 30, 1919. He was also a major in the Officers' Reserve Corps from 1919 to 1921.

In 1920, he became a delegate to the Nebraska constitutional convention. He was elected as a Democrat to the 74th United States Congress and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1935, to January 3, 1943. He was unsuccessful in running for reelection in 1942 to the 78th Congress. Afterwards, he became a member of the American-Mexican Claims Commission in Washington, D.C., from 1943 to 1947. He was a member of the Indian Claims Commission from April 5, 1947, until November 14, 1949, when he took the oath of office a day later as a United States district judge for the District of Columbia. He became a senior United States district court judge for the District of Columbia on December 31, 1964, and continued to hear cases until June 1974. He resided in Washington, D.C., where he died on February 5, 1976. He is buried in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland.

References

1. "The Political Graveyard". McLaughlin, Charles Francis. Retrieved February 2, 2006. 
2. "Congressional Bioguide". McLaughlin, Charles Francis. Retrieved February 2, 2006. 

• This article incorporates facts obtained from: Lawrence Kestenbaum, The Political Graveyard 

• United States Congress. "Charles F. McLaughlin (id: M000538)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska
1st district	A. Weaver McShane Connell Bryan Strode Burkett Pollard Maguire Reavis Thorpe Morehead Luckey Heinke Sweet Copeland Curtis P. Weaver Beermann Callan Denney Thone Bereuter Fortenberry
2nd district	Laird Laws McKeighan Mercer G. Hitchcock Kennedy G. Hitchcock Lobeck Jefferis Sears Baldrige Burke C. McLaughlin Buffett O'Sullivan Buffett Hruska Chase Cunningham McCollister Cavanaugh Daub Hoagland Christensen Terry Ashford Bacon (elect)
3rd district	Valentine Dorsey Kem Meiklejohn Maxwell Robinson McCarthy Boyd Latta Stephens Evans Howard Stefan Harrison Brock Beermann Martin V. Smith Barrett Osborne A. Smith
4th district	Hainer Stark Hinshaw Sloan M. McLaughlin Norton Sloan Norton Shallenberger Binderup Curtis Miller McGinley Martin
5th district	McKeighan Andrews Sutherland Shallenberger Norris Barton Shallenberger Andrews Shallenberger Johnson Shallenberger Carpenter Coffee
6th district	Kem Greene Neville Kinkaid Humphrey Simmons
At-large	Marquette Taffe Crounse Welch Majors Valentine
Territory	Giddings Chapman Ferguson Estabrook Daily P. Hitchcock