Charles Risk | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island's 1st district | |
In office January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1941 | |
Preceded by | Aime Forand |
Succeeded by | Aime Forand |
In office August 6, 1935 – January 3, 1937 | |
Preceded by | Francis Condon |
Succeeded by | Aime Forand |
Personal details | |
Born | Central Falls, Rhode Island, U.S. | August 19, 1897
Died | December 26, 1943 Lincoln, Rhode Island, U.S. | (aged 46)
Political party | Republican |
Profession | Attorney |
Military service | |
Allegiance | United States |
Branch/service | United States Army |
Rank | Private |
Battles/wars | World War I |
Charles Francis Risk (August 19, 1897 – December 26, 1943) was an American lawyer and World War I veteran who served two non-consecutive terms as a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Early life
Born in Central Falls, Rhode Island, Risk attended the public and high schools there. He worked in local textile plants.
World War I
During the First World War he served in the United States Army as a private at Camp Meigs in 1918.
Early career
He was employed in the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., from 1919 to 1922.
Lawyer and judge
He graduated from the law department of Georgetown University in 1922, and was admitted to the bar in 1923, taking up a practice in his home town the same year.
He served as probate judge of Central Falls from 1929 to 1931, as coroner of Lincoln, Rhode Island in 1931 and 1932, and as justice of Rhode Island's 11th District Court from 1932 to 1935.
Political career
He served as delegate to the Republican state conventions in 1936, 1940, and 1942.
Congress
Risk was elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress as a Republican, filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of Francis B. Condon; he served from August 6, 1935, to January 3, 1937.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936.
Risk was elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1941), and made an unsuccessful reelection bid in 1940.
Later career and death
After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
He died in Saylesville, in the township of Lincoln, Rhode Island, December 26, 1943, and was buried in St. Francis Cemetery in Pawtucket.
Sources
- United States Congress. "Charles Risk (id: R000269)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress