{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Charles Franklin Sprague | image = Charles Franklin Sprague (1857–1902).png | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = [[Massachusetts's 11th congressional district|11th]] | term = March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1901 | preceded = [[William Franklin Draper (politician)|William F. Draper]] | succeeded = [[Samuel L. Powers]] | office2 = Member of the<br>[[Massachusetts Senate]] | constituency2 = Ninth Suffolk District | term2 = January 1895 - January 1897 | preceded2 = Francis William Kittredge<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/souvenirofmassac1894brid/page/125/mode/1up |last=Bridgman|first=A. M.| title =A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators |volume=III| page = 125 | publisher = A. M. Bridgeman| location = Stoughton, MA | year = 1894 |access-date=2023-03-04 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> | succeeded2 = Joshua Bennett Holden<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/souvenirofmassac1897brid/page/120/mode/1up |last=Bridgman|first=A. M.| title =A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators |volume=VI| page = 120 | publisher = A. M. Bridgeman| location = Stoughton, MA | year = 1897 |access-date=2023-03-04 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> | office3 = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term3 = 1891-1892 | office4 = Member of the [[Boston Common Council]] | term4 = 1889–1890 | birth_date = {{birth date|1857|6|10|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Boston]], Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1902|1|30|1857|6|10|mf=y}} | death_place = [[Providence, Rhode Island]], U.S. | resting_place = [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]] | spouse = {{Marriage|Mary Bryant Pratt|November 1891}} | alma_mater = {{Plainlist| * [[Harvard University]] * [[Harvard Law School]] * [[Boston University]] (JD) }} | profession = Attorney | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]| }}
'''Charles Franklin Sprague''' (June 10, 1857 – January 30, 1902) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]], grandson of [[Peleg Sprague (Maine politician)|Peleg Sprague]] (1793–1880).
==Biography== Born in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], Sprague attended the public schools and was graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1879. He studied law at [[Harvard Law School]] before completing his studies at [[Boston University School of Law|BU Law]]. He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] in Boston.<ref name=To-Day>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/massachusettsoft00toom/page/228/mode/1up |title=Massachusetts of To-Day: A Memorial of the State, Historical and Biographical, Issued for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago |first=Daniel P. |last=Toomey |editor-first=Thomas C. |editor-last=Quinn |page=228 |date=1892 |access-date=2023-03-04 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
He married Mary Bryant Pratt in November 1891.<ref name=To-Day/><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/sevenweldbrother00bent/page/2/mode/1up |last=Benton|first=Nicholas| title =The Seven Weld Brothers, 1800 to 2000: A Contemporary Genealogy| page = 2 | publisher = iUniverse, Inc| location = New York, NY | year = 2004 |access-date=2023-03-04 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
He served as member of the [[Boston Common Council]] in 1889 and 1890, and then in the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] in 1891 and 1892. He chaired the board of park commissioners of the city of Boston in 1893 and 1894, and served in the [[Massachusetts State Senate]] in 1895 and 1896.<ref name="The New York Times 9">{{Cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/01/31/101932318.pdf |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | title = Charles F. Sprague Dead.; Massachusetts ex-Congressman Was Richest Man in House of Representatives and Prominent in Boston Society. | page = 9 | location = Boston | date = January 31, 1902 |access-date=2023-03-04}}</ref><ref name="ASouvmasslegVol5_1896_pg_133">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/souvenirofmassac1896brid/page/133/mode/1up |last=Bridgman|first=A. M.| title =A Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators |volume=V| page = 133 | publisher = A. M. Bridgeman| location = Stoughton, MA | year = 1896 |access-date=2023-03-04 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
Sprague was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[55th United States Congress|Fifty-fifth]] and [[56th United States Congress|Fifty-sixth]] Congresses (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1901). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1900 to the [[57th United States Congress|Fifty-seventh]] Congress.
He died in the Butler Sanitarium in [[Providence, Rhode Island]],<ref name="The New York Times 9"/> on January 30, 1902, and was interred in [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]], Watertown, Massachusetts.
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==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} * {{Find a Grave|7500208}} {{CongBio|S000742}}
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