{{Short description|Newfoundland lawyer and politician (1863–1919)}} {{for|the founder of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts|Charles Wesley Emerson}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = | honorific_suffix = MHA | image = | alt = | caption = | constituency_AM1 = Fortune Bay | assembly1 = Newfoundland House of | term_start1 = {{start date|1908|11|02}} | term_end1 = {{end date|1917|11}} | predecessor1 = Albert H. Martin | successor1 = William Warren | constituency_AM2 = Burgeo-La Poile | assembly2 = Newfoundland House of | term_start2 = {{start date|1900|11|08}} | term_end2 = {{end date|1904|10|31}} | predecessor2 = Henry Y. Mott | successor2 = Robert Moulton | birth_name = Charles Henry Grigg Emerson | birth_date = {{Birth date|1863|08|27}} | birth_place = St. John's, Newfoundland Colony | death_date = {{Death date and age|1919|02|18|1863|08|27}} | death_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | resting_place = | occupation = Lawyer | spouse = {{Marriage|Helen Louise Scott|1913}} | children = | relatives = Prescott Emerson (uncle) | education = Bishop Feild College | party = Liberal (1900–1904)<br>People's (1908–1919) }} '''Charles Henry Grigg Emerson''' (August 27, 1863 &ndash; February 18, 1919) was a lawyer and politician in Newfoundland.<ref name=rhapsody/> He represented Burgeo-La Poile from 1900 to 1904 as a Liberal and Fortune Bay from 1908 to 1919 as a People's Party member in the Newfoundland House of Assembly.

== Early life and family ==

The son of John Archibald Sinclair Emerson and Jennie Bayley, he was born in St. John's<ref name=rhapsody/> and was educated at Bishop Feild College. Emerson practised law with his uncle Prescott Emerson. He was called to the Newfoundland bar in 1891.

In 1913, Emerson married Helen Louise Scott.<ref name=rhapsody/> His son Frederick Rennie Emerson was a lawyer, musician and composer who played an important role in promoting the awareness of Newfoundland's cultural heritage.<ref name=rhapsody/>

== Politics ==

Emerson ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Newfoundland assembly in an 1894 by-election. He was elected to the assembly in 1900 and then was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1904 by his Conservative opponent Robert Moulton.

Emerson returned to politics in 1908 when he was elected for the district of Fortune Bay as a member of the new People's Party. From 1909 to 1917, he served in the Executive Council as a minister without portfolio in the administration of Edward Morris. Emerson resigned his seat in the House of Assembly in November 1917 and he was subsequently named registrar for the Supreme Court of Newfoundland.<ref name=bio>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_enl/id/169 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador |page=775 |title=Emerson, Charles Henry}}</ref>

Emerson died in Boston at the age of 55.<ref name=rhapsody>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T8A0AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA24 |title=Newfoundland Rhapsody: Frederick R. Emerson and the Musical Culture of the Island |pages=24–25 |last=Colton |first=Glenn David |year=2014 |isbn=978-0773589377 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press}}</ref>

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