Boatner, Charles J
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 1849, in Columbia, La. He was admitted to the bar in January, 1870; and was elected a member of the state senate in 1876. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses, and received the certificate of election to the fifty-fourth congress, but his seat was declared vacant March 20, 1896. At a special election held June 10, 1896, he was elected to the short term of the fiftyfourth congress as a democrat.