
Charles William Foster Jr. (12 April 1826-9 January 1904) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-OH 9) from 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1873 (succeeding Edward F. Dickinson and preceding James Wallace Robinson) and from OH-10 from 4 March 1873 to 3 March 1879 (succeeding Erasmus D. Peck and preceding Thomas Ewing Jr.), Governor of Ohio from 12 January 1880 to 14 January 1884 (succeeding Richard M. Bishop and preceding George Hoadly), and United States Secretary of the Treasury from 25 February 1891 to 6 March 1893 (succeeding William Windom and preceding John G. Carlisle).
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Charles Foster was born in Tiffin, Ohio in 1826, and he was raised in Rome (which merged into "Fostoria", named for his father, in 1854). He served in the US House of Representatives from 1871 to 1879, as Governor of Ohio from 1880 to 1884, and as Secretary of the Treasury from 1891 to 1893, finishing William Windom's service. He died in 1904.