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Charles Benjamin Farwell (1 July 1823-23 Septmber 1903) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-IL 1) from 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1873 (succeeding Norman B. Judd and preceding John Blake Rice) and from IL-3 from 4 March 1873 to 6 May 1876 (succeeding Horatio C. Burchard and preceding John V. Le Moyne) and from 4 March 1881 to 3 March 1883 (succeeding Hiram Barber Jr. and preceding George R. Davis), and a US Senator from Illinois from 19 January 1887 to 3 March 1891 (succeeding John A. Logan and preceding John M. Palmer).

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Charles Benjamin Farwell was born in Painted Post, New York in 1823, and he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1844 and went into banking. He served as Cook County clerk from 1853 to 1861, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1871 to 1876 and from 1881 to 1883 and in the US Senate from 1887 to 1891. He campaigned for women's suffrage, and he died in 1903.

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