# Charles Dorr

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{{short description|American politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name          = Charles P. Dorr
| image         = Charles P. Dorr (West Virginia Congressman).jpg
| caption       = From Volume 1 (1899) of ''Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, Supreme Court and Fifty-fifth Congress''
| district      = 3rd
| predecessor   = [James Hall Huling](/source/James_Hall_Huling)
| successor     = [David Emmons Johnston](/source/David_Emmons_Johnston)
| term_end      = {{End date|1899|03|03}}
| term_start    = {{Start date|1897|03|04}}
| state         = West Virginia
| party         = [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States))
| birth_name    = Charles Phillips Dorr
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1852|08|12}}
| birth_place   = [Miltonburg](/source/Miltonsburg%2C_Ohio), [Ohio](/source/Ohio)
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1914|10|08|1852|08|12}}
| death_place   = [Clover Lick](/source/Clover_Lick%2C_West_Virginia), [West Virginia](/source/West_Virginia)
| resting_place = Clover Lick Cemetery, Clover Lick, West Virginia
| profession    = Attorney
}}

'''Charles Phillips Dorr''' (August 12, 1852 – October 8, 1914) was a [lawyer](/source/lawyer) and [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)) [politician](/source/politician) from [West Virginia](/source/West_Virginia) who served as a [United States representative](/source/United_States_representative) in the [55th United States Congress](/source/55th_United_States_Congress). Dorr was born in [Miltonsburg, Ohio](/source/Miltonsburg%2C_Ohio), in [Monroe County](/source/Monroe_County%2C_Ohio).

Dorr moved with his parents to [Woodsfield, Ohio](/source/Woodsfield%2C_Ohio), in 1866. He taught school in [Ohio](/source/Ohio) and [West Virginia](/source/West_Virginia). After studying law, he was admitted to the [bar](/source/Bar_association) in 1874 and began practicing in West Virginia that year. He was a member of the [Webster Springs, West Virginia](/source/Webster_Springs%2C_West_Virginia) [town council](/source/town_council). He won election to the fourth delegate district of the [West Virginia House of Delegates](/source/West_Virginia_House_of_Delegates) in 1884 and 1888. In 1887 he was made [Sergeant at Arms](/source/Sergeant_at_Arms). He won election in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1899). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1898 and resumed his legal practice at [Webster Springs, West Virginia](/source/Webster_Springs%2C_West_Virginia). He died on his estate at [Clover Lick, West Virginia](/source/Clover_Lick%2C_West_Virginia), in [Pocahontas County](/source/Pocahontas_County%2C_West_Virginia) on October 8, 1914. He was buried at Clover Lick Cemetery.

==See also==
*[West Virginia's congressional delegations](/source/West_Virginia's_congressional_delegations)

==Sources==
{{Bioguide}}
{{CongBio|D000436|name=DORR, Charles Phillips|inline=1}} Online. September 11, 2007.

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