Charles Cyrus Kearns
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| name=Charles Cyrus Kearns
| image name= Charles Cyrus Kearns 1916.jpg
| caption = Kearns in Washington, D.C. in 1916
| state= Ohio
| district= 6th
| term_start = March 4, 1915
| term_end = March 3, 1931
| preceded= Simeon D. Fess
| succeeded= James G. Polk
| party= Republican
| birth_date = {{birth date|1869|2|11}}
| birth_place = Tonica, Illinois, US
| death_date = {{death date and age|1931|12|17|1869|2|11}}
| death_place = Amelia, Ohio, US
| restingplace = Mount Moriah Cemetery
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| children =
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| alma_mater = Ohio Northern University, National Normal University, Cincinnati Law School
}}
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Charles Cyrus Kearns (February 11, 1869 – December 17, 1931) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio from 1915 to 1931.
Biography
Charles C. Kearns was born in Tonica, Illinois. He moved with his parents to Georgetown, Ohio, in 1874. He attended the public schools in Georgetown, Ohio, Ohio Northern University at Ada, and National Noral University in Lebanon, Ohio. He taught school in Brown County, Ohio.
He graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1894, and was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Batavia, Ohio. He was the managing editor of the Las Vegas Daily Record in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in 1900 and 1901 and of the Daily Record in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1901 and 1902. He returned to Ohio in 1903 and practiced law in Batavia. He was the prosecuting attorney of Clermont County, Ohio, from 1906 to 1909.
=Congress =
Kearns was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the seven succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress.
=Later career and death =
He was engaged in the practice of law at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1930, and died in Amelia, Ohio. Interment in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Tobasco, Ohio.
Sources
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- [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html The Political Graveyard]
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Category:People from Tonica, Illinois
Category:Ohio Northern University alumni
Category:University of Cincinnati College of Law alumni
Category:People from Georgetown, Ohio
Category:People from Batavia, Ohio
Category:National Normal University alumni
Category:County district attorneys in Ohio
Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
Category:20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives