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CHARLES ELROY, a United States senator, born in Concord, Jackson co., Mich., in 1856. Graduating from the University of Michigan, in 1878, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1895. For a while he was co.

Register of Deeds of Jackson In 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, and in 1903 he was elected to Congress from the Second Michigan District, then reelected for a second term. In 1910 he was nominated at the primaries, then, a year later, elected by the legislature to the United States Senate for the term 1911-1917 and again for 1917-1923.

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