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Smith, Charles Brooks

soldier, congressman, was born Feb. 24, 1844, in Wood county, W. Va. He enlisted in the union army at the age of nineteen years, and was mustered out in 1865. He was twice elected mayor of the city of Parkersburg; and in 1880 was elected sheriff and treasurer of the county of Wood, and served a term of four years; was delegate at large to the national republican convention at Chicago in 1888; and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.