Biography

05/11/1825 - 09/16/1882

RAMSDELL, Charles Pitt, a Representative from Mercer and Venango Counties; born, May 11, 1825 in Oneida County, NY; printer; teacher; proprietor, Venango American Citizen; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1857 and 1858; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1859); proprietor, Oil City Monitor; journal clerk, Pennsylvania State Senate; cattle farmer; elected, Virginia House of Delegates (1871-1872); unsuccessful campaign, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (1873); appointed, United States Marshal, Eastern District of Virginia (1874-1882); elected, chair, Virginia State Central Committee (1880); died, September 16, 1882 in Centralia, Chesterfield County, Virginia; interred, Centralia Cemetery, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, Virginia.