Charles A. Chickering

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| image = Charles Addison Chickering.jpg

| name = Charles A. Chickering

| birth_name = Charles Addison Chickering

| birth_date = {{birth date|1843|11|26}}

| birth_place = Harrisburg, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1900|02|13|1843|11|26}}

| death_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

| education =

| occupation = teacher, hardware merchant

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| office = Chair of the House Railways and Canals Committee

| term_start = March 4, 1895

| term_end = February 13, 1900

| predecessor = Seth W. Cobb

| successor = James H. Davidson

| state2 = New York

| district2 = {{ushr|NY|24|24th}}

| term_start2 = March 4, 1893

| term_end2 = February 13, 1900

| predecessor2 = George Van Horn

| successor2 = Albert D. Shaw

| state_assembly3 = New York

| district3 = Lewis County

| term_start3 = January 1, 1879

| term_end3 = December 31, 1881

| predecessor3 = Cyrus L. Sheldon

| successor3 = G. Henry P. Gould

| party = Republican

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Charles Addison Chickering (November 26, 1843 – February 13, 1900) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Life

Born in Harrisburg, New York, Chickering attended the common schools and Lowville Academy and was for some time a teacher in that institution. He engaged in business as a hardware merchant. He served as school commissioner of Lewis County 1865–1875. He was a member of the New York State Assembly for Lewis County in 1879, 1880 and 1881 and was Clerk of the Assembly from 1884 to 1890. He served as chairman of the Lewis County Republican committee. He served as member of the Republican State committee, serving as secretary, and as a member of its executive committee.

Chickering was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1893, until his accidental death from injuries received in a fall from a window of the Grand Union Hotel in New York City while on a business trip on February 13, 1900. He served as chairman of the Committee on Railways and Canals (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-sixth Congresses). He was interred in Riverside Cemetery in Copenhagen, New York.