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About Charles J. Folger
Charles James Folger was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was a State Senator in New York from 1862 to 1869 and served as the 34th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from November 14, 1881 until his death in 1884. Folger was the Republican nominee for Governor of New York in 1882, but was defeated by the Democratic Party's nominee, future President Grover Cleveland.
Everything about Charles J. Folger →- Occupation
- lawyer, politician, judge
- Position held
- United States Secretary of the Treasury, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, member of the State Senate of New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 16, 1818
- Died
- September 4, 1884