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He married Lilian E. Broders (1867–1945) of Alexandria on October 28, 1891, and they had two sons: Charles Keith Carlin (1892–1965, who likewise became a lawyer after serving in the Army Air Force during both World Wars but moved to California) and Charles Creighton Carlin (1900–1966, who succeeded
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Carlin was originally an opponent of women's suffrage, helping to keep the Nineteenth Amendment from leaving its subcommittee for years. However, by early 1920 he had changed his mind and saying, “I am now convinced that they do want the right to vote...and am further convinced that they ought to
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to railroad worker William Henry Carlin (1828–1870) and his wife Frances Elizabeth Eskridge (1826–1891), Carlin lost his father as a boy. However, his mother took in boarders and later worked as a teacher to support the family, and Charles was able to attended local public schools and Alexandria
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Carlin died in Washington on October 14, 1938. Two wills were presented for probate, together with a revocation of one will and a trust document in favor of his granddaughter Sara (daughter of his son Charles C. Carlin Jr., who continued to publish the
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Academy. Seven of his mother's family had served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and one (lawyer George Eskridge) had served on the vestry of Alexandria's
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Carlin also resumed his legal practice in Alexandria and Washington, D.C. Carlin moved to Washington, D.C. in 1936 and worked in both jurisdictions until his death.
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Carlin resigned from Congress in order to manage the unsuccessful presidential campaign of President Wilson's Attorney General (and former Pennsylvania Congressman)
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Charles Carlin worked as a clerk (as did his elder brother Franklin) to support the family, and then attended the National University Law School, across the
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records disagree as to whether diphtheria or tuberculosis was the cause, and ancestry.com's library edition does not make originals available online
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Joan Zenzen, Battling for Manassas: The Fifty-Year Preservation Struggle at Manassas (Pennsylvania State University Press 2010) pp. 10-12
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A History of the Book in America: Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940
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Henry C,. Ferrell, Jr., Claude A. Swanson of Virginia: a Political Biography (University Press of Kentucky 2015) p. 88
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for the 1920 Presidential nomination. He later managed the unsuccessful 1924 Presidential campaign of Alabama Senator
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and to five succeeding Congresses, serving from November 5, 1907, to March 3, 1919, when he resigned before the
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U.S. Federal Census 1870, Alexandria Ward 3; U.S. Federal Census 1880 for Alexandria Election District 4
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Sons of American Revolution application of Keith Carlin of February 9, 1928, available at ancestry.com
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and had subsequently been confined to state mental hospitals in California and eventually
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Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia
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United States Congress Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections (Aug 13, 1920).
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Charles Creighton Carlin on the House Committee on the Judiciary in 1916
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from 1893 to 1897, during the administration of Democratic president
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1910 U.S. Federal Census for Alexandria Ward 2, district 4
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for over forty years, and ten times served as delegate to
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newspaper in his home town, and in 1895 helped start the
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to fill the vacancy caused by the unexpected death of
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in 1891 and began his legal practice in Alexandria.
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Burials at Ivy Hill Cemetery (Alexandria, Virginia)
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Charles C. Carlin

U.S. House of Representatives
Virginia
8th
John Franklin Rixey
R. Walton Moore
Alexandria, Virginia
Washington, D.C.
Ivy Hill Cemetery
Democratic
Alma mater
National University Law School
Lawyer
Democratic
United States House of Representatives
Virginia's 8th congressional district
Alexandria, Virginia
American Civil War
Christ Church
Mary Ball
George Washington
Fauquier County, Virginia
Confederate
3rd Virginia Infantry
Potomac River
Washington, D.C.
George Washington University School of Law
admitted to the Virginia bar

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