Charles E. Pickett

Charles Edgar Pickett (January 14, 1866 – July 20, 1930) was a two-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district.

Early years

Born near Bonaparte, Iowa, Pickett attended the common schools. He was graduated from the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1888 and from its College of Law in 1890. Pickett was admitted to the bar in 1890 and commenced practice in Waterloo, Iowa. He served as vice president of the Pioneer National Bank, and went on to serve as regent of the University of Iowa from 1896 to 1909.

He served as chairman of the Republican State Convention in 1899.

Political career

In 1908, Pickett was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 3rd congressional district the Sixty-first Congress. Two years later, he was re-elected, leading to service in the Sixty-second Congress.

In 1912, when Republicans were divided between their own party's candidates and candidates of the Bull Moose Party, Pickett ran for re-election to a third term, but was defeated by Democrat Maurice Connolly of Dubuque. In all, he served from March 4, 1909 to March 3, 1913.

After losing the election, he resumed the practice of law in Waterloo. He again served as chairman of the Republican State Convention in 1916, and served as delegate at large to the 1920 Republican National Convention.

In 1922, U.S. Senator William S. Kenyon of Iowa resigned to accept a judgeship, forcing a special election. Pickett was one of six Republicans who ran in the Republican primary for Kenyon's former senate seat. Insurgent Smith W. Brookhart finished far ahead of Pickett and the others, by a great enough margin to avoid a convention fight.^[1]

Pickett died in Waterloo, on July 20, 1930. He was interred in Elmwood Cemetery in Waterloo.

References

↑ "Brookhart Given 41.1 Percent on All Primary Ballots," Waterloo Evening Courier, 1922-06-07 at 1.

United States Congress. "Charles E. Pickett (id: P000325)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Benjamin P. Birdsall	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 3rd congressional district 1909–1913	Succeeded by Maurice Connolly

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa

1st	W. Thompson Miller Henn A. Hall S. Curtis J. F. Wilson McCrary Stone McCoid B. Hall Gear Seerley Gear S. Clark Hedge Kennedy Kopp Eicher Martin Schwengel Schmidhauser Schwengel Mezvinsky Leach Nussle Braley Blum

2nd	Leffler L. Clark J. P. Cook Thorington Davis Vandever Price Smyth W. Wolf Cotton Tufts Price Farwell Murphy Hayes G. Curtis Lane Rumple Wade Dawson Pepper Vollmer Hull Letts B. Jacobsen W. Jacobsen Talle L. Wolf Bromwell Culver Blouin Tauke Nussle Leach Loebsack

3rd	Allison Donnan Ainsworth Burdick Updegraff Henderson Birdsall Pickett Connolly Sweet Robinson Willford Gwynne Gross Grassley Evans Nagle Lightfoot Boswell Latham Young

4th	Grinnell Loughridge Walden Pratt Deering Weller Fuller Sweney Butler Updegraff Haugen Biermann Talle Le Compte Carter Kyl Bandstra Kyl N. Smith Ganske Latham King

5th	Kasson G. Dodge Palmer J. Wilson R. Clark W. G. Thompson J. Wilson Frederick Kerr J. Hamilton Cousins Good Cole Thurston Le Compte Cunningham N. Smith Scherle Harkin Lightfoot Grandy Latham King

6th	A. Hubbard Pomeroy Orr Loughridge Sampson Weaver Cutts J. C. Cook Cutts J. C. Cook Weaver Lacey White Lacey D. Hamilton Kendall Kirkpatrick Ramseyer Dowell Utterback Dowell Goodwin Cunningham Gilchrist J. I. Dolliver Coad Hoeven Greigg Mayne Bedell Grandy

7th	Kasson Cummings E. Gillette Kasson H. Smith Conger Hays Hull Prouty Dowell Wearin Jensen Hansen Scherle

8th	McDill Sapp Hepburn Anderson Flick Hepburn Jamieson Towner Evans Thurston Gilchrist Hoeven

9th	Orr Oliver Carpenter Pusey Lyman Reed Bowman Hager McPherson W. Smith Green Vincent Swanson G. Gillette Harrington Narey

10th	Holmes J. P. Dolliver Conner Woods Dickinson Gilchrist

11th	Struble Perkins Thomas E. Hubbard Scott Steele Scott Boies Campbell

AL	Hastings and Leffler

Terr	Chapman A. Dodge

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