Charles S. Hartman

Charles S. Hartman, Montana Congressman.

Charles Sampson Hartman (March 1, 1861 – August 3, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from Montana.

Born in Monticello, Indiana, Hartman attended the public schools and Wabash College in Crawfordsville. He moved to Bozeman, Montana, in January 1882. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1884, and began practicing in Bozeman. He was a probate judge of Gallatin County 1884-1886. He served as member of the State constitutional convention in 1889.

Hartman was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses. He was reelected as a Silver Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1899. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1898. He served as delegate to the 1896 Republican National Convention. He resumed the practice of law.

He became affiliated with the Democratic Party in 1900. He served as delegate to the 1900 Democratic National Convention. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election as a Democrat in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress. He was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Ecuador in July 1913 and served until May 14, 1922, when he returned to Bozeman. He moved to Great Falls in 1926 and resumed the practice of law. He moved to Fort Benton in 1927, having been appointed judge of the twelfth judicial district of Montana on March 3, 1927.

Hartman was elected to the same office in 1928, and served until his death in Great Falls, on August 3, 1929. He was interred in Riverside Cemetery in Fort Benton.

References

• United States Congress. "Charles S. Hartman (id: H000300)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 
• Charles S. Hartman at Find a Grave

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Members of the United States House of Representatives from Montana
Territorial (1865–1889)	Seat McLean Cavanaugh Clagett Maginnis Toole Carter
One At-large seat (1889–1913)	Seat Carter W. Dixon Hartman Campbell Edwards J. Dixon Pray
Two At-large seats (1913–1919)	Seat Evans Seat Stout Rankin
Districts (1919–1993)	1st district Evans McCormick Evans Monaghan O'Connell Thorkelson Rankin Mansfield Metcalf Olsen Shoup Baucus Williams 2nd district Riddick Leavitt Ayers O'Connor D'Ewart Fjare Anderson Battin Melcher Marlenee
One At-large seat (1993–present)	Seat Williams Hill Rehberg Daines Zinke

United States Ambassadors to Ecuador
Chargé d'Affaires	Robert B. McAfee James Chamberlayne Pickett (plenipotentiary) Van Brugh Livingston John Trumbull Van Alen Courtland Cushing
Minister Resident	Philo White Charles R. Buckalew Friedrich Hassaurek William Turner Coggeshall David Alexander Nunn E. Rumsey Wing Christian Wullweber
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Rowland B. Mahaney Edward Henry Strobel James D. Tillman Archibald J. Sampson Joseph W. J. Lee Williams C. Fox Evan E. Young Montgomery Schuler Jr. Charles S. Hartman Gerhard Adolph Bading William Dawson Antonio C. Gonzalez Boaz Walton Long
Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Boaz Walton Long Robert M. Scotten John F. Simmons Paul C. Daniels Sheldon T. Mills Christian M. Ravndal Maurice M. Bernbaum Wymberley DeRenne Coerr Edson O. Sessions Findley Burns Jr. Robert C. Brewster Richard J. Bloomfield Raymond E. Gonzalez Samuel Friedlander Hart Fernando Enrique Rondon Richard Newton Holwill Paul C. Lambert James F. Mack (a.i.) Peter F. Romero Leslie M. Alexander Gwen C. Clare Kristie Kenney Linda Jewell Heather M. Hodges Andrew Bowen (a.i.) Timothy Zúñiga-Brown (a.i.) Adam Namm Todd C. Chapman