{{short description|American politician (1844–1910)}} {{Use American English|date=June 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name =Charles Quincy Tirrell | image = Charles Q. Tirrell.jpg | caption = Charles Q. Tirrell c. 1905 | state =[[Massachusetts]] | district =[[Massachusetts's 4th congressional district|4th]] | term_start = March 4, 1901 | term_end = July 31, 1910 | preceded = [[George W. Weymouth]] | succeeded = [[John Joseph Mitchell]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1844|12|10}} | birth_place = [[Sharon, Massachusetts]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1910|07|31|1844|12|10}} | death_place = [[Natick, Massachusetts]], U.S. | party =[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | relations = | children = | alma_mater =[[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]] | occupation = | profession =Attorney | order2 = | office2 =Member of the Massachusetts Senate<ref name="Who's who in State Politics, 1908">{{Citation| title =Who's who in State Politics, 1908 | page = 21 | publisher = Practical Politics | location = Boston, MA | date = 1908}}</ref> | term_start2 =1881 | term_end2 =1882 | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | office3 =Member of the Massachusetts<br> House of Representatives<ref name="Who's who in State Politics, 1908" /> | term_start3 =1872 | term_end3 =1872 | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | order3 = | office4 = Presidential Elector<ref name="Who's who in State Politics, 1908" /> | term_start4 =1888 | term_end4 =1888 | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Charles Quincy Tirrell''' (December 10, 1844 – July 31, 1910) was a lawyer, educator, and [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].

==Biography== Born in [[Sharon, Massachusetts]], Tirrell attended public schools and later studied law at [[Dartmouth College]], graduating in 1866. He served as principal of Peacham Academy in [[Peacham, Vermont]], for one year, and of [[St. Johnsbury, Vermont|St. Johnsbury High School]] for two years. He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] in 1870 and commenced practice in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. He served as a member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] in 1872. He moved to [[Natick, Massachusetts]], in 1873. He served in the [[Massachusetts Senate]] in 1881 and 1882.

A "past grand master of the grand lodge, [[Independent Order of Odd Fellows]], of Massachusetts," Tirrell was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[57th United States Congress|Fifty-seventh]] and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1901, until his death in Natick on July 31, 1910.<ref name="cd">{{cite web |title=S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-04562_00_00-001-0001-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=2 July 2023 |page=48 |date=9 November 1903}}</ref> He was interred in Dell Park Cemetery.

==See also== * [[1872 Massachusetts legislature]] * [[1881 Massachusetts legislature]] * [[List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)]]

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==Bibliography== *''Who's who in State Politics, 1908'' Practical Politics (1908) p.&nbsp;21. {{CongBio|T000287}} *[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hx4dyj;view=1up;seq=9 Charles Q. Tirrell, late a representative from Massachusetts, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1911]

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