# Charles Kinsey

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'''Charles Kinsey''' (1773{{spnd}}June 25, 1849) was an American businessman and politician who served two terms as a [U.S. Representative](/source/U.S._Representative) from [New Jersey](/source/New_Jersey) from 1817 to 1819, then again from 1820 to 1821.

==Early life and career==
Kinsey was born in [Baltimore, Maryland](/source/Baltimore%2C_Maryland) in 1773. He attended the common schools, and in early life engaged in the manufacture of paper. He moved to [Bloomfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey](/source/Bloomfield%2C_New_Jersey) and later to [Paterson, New Jersey](/source/Paterson%2C_New_Jersey) and New Prospect (now [Waldwick](/source/Waldwick%2C_New_Jersey)), [Bergen County](/source/Bergen_County%2C_New_Jersey), continuing in the [paper industry](/source/pulp_and_paper_industry).

In 1807 he invented a machine which allowed paper to be produced in one continuous roll.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/newjerseyamerica0000cunn|url-access=registration|quote=charles kinsey new jersey.|title=New Jersey, America's main road|first=John T.|last=Cunningham|date=December 1, 1976|publisher=Doubleday|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> His correspondence with [James Madison](/source/James_Madison) is in the Library of Congress.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/mjm.17_0767_0769/?st=gallery|title=Charles Kinsey to James Madison, October 19, 1815. From the Manufacturing Association of New Jersey.|website=Library of Congress}}</ref>

==Political career==
Kinsey was a member of [New Jersey General Assembly](/source/New_Jersey_General_Assembly) in 1812, 1813, 1819, and 1826 and served in the [New Jersey Legislative Council](/source/New_Jersey_Legislative_Council) (now the [New Jersey Senate](/source/New_Jersey_Senate)) in 1814. 

=== Congress ===
He was elected as a [Democratic-Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican) to the 15th [Congress](/source/Congress_of_the_United_States) (March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1819), then elected to the 16th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [John Condit](/source/John_Condit) and served from February 2, 1820<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RwJFAQAAMAAJ&q=%22charles+kinsey%22+%22new+jersey%22&pg=PA220|title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States|first=United States Congress|last=House|date=February 4, 2019|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}}</ref> to March 3, 1821.

==Later career and death==
After serving in the Congress, Kinsey continued to work in the paper industry. He then became a judge, serving as judge of the New Jersey Court of Common Pleas and of the orphans’ court of [Bergen County, New Jersey](/source/Bergen_County%2C_New_Jersey) from 1830<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/historybergenco00valegoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/historybergenco00valegoog/page/n55 45]|quote=charles kinsey new jersey.|title=History of Bergen County, New Jersey|first=James M. Van|last=Valen|date=February 4, 2019|publisher=New Jersey pub. and engraving Company|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> to 1845.

=== Death and burial ===
He died in New Prospect, New Jersey on June 25, 1849 and is buried in Union Cemetery, near New Prospect.

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