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| Affiliation | Socialist |
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| Name | Charles Horatio Matchett |
| Address |
Brooklyn, New York , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
May 15, 1843 |
| Died |
October 23, 1919
(76 years) |
| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
Aug 28, 2021 08:25am |
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| Info | MATCHETT, Charles Horatio - labor leader and Socialist Labor Party activist.
Born 5/15/1843 in Needham MA; son of Horatio & Clarissa C. (Batchelder) Matchett.
Boston (MA) High School.
US Navy 1861-1862
Worked in a mercantile business in Chicago IL and in a grocery store in Boston MA.
Inventor, shoe factory worker; carpenter
Relocated to Brooklyn NY; electrician, New York and New Jersey Telephone Company 1886-1919
Candidate for US Vice President (SLP) 1892 on the party's first national ticket
Candidate for delegate to the state constitutional convention (SLP) 1893 - NYT 11/5/1893
Candidate for Governor (SL-NY) 1894
Candidate for Mayor of Brooklyn (SLP) 1895 - NYT 10/29/1895
Candidate for US President (SLP) 1896
Candidate for NYC Council (SLP) 1897
Candidate for Presidential Elector (Social Democratic - NY) 1900 - ran on the Debs ticket rather than the SLP ticket - NYT 11/4/1900
Candidate for associate justice, NY Court of Appeals (Social Democratic Party) 1903 - NYT 10/9/1903; received 12,339 votes in a race with Daniel DeLeon listed as the SLP nominee (4,025); winner was Denis O'Brien (endorsed by Dems and Reps, receiving 296,352 votes) - NYT 12/2/1903
Candidate for chief justice, NY Court of Appeals (Socialist) 1904
Candidate for US House (Socialist-NY) 1910, 1914
Candidate for NYC Alderman (Socialist) 1913 - NYT 12/27/1913
After his retirement in 1919, he moved to 12 Gardner Street, Allston Ma, where he died later that year on 10/23/1919.
James T. Havel, U.S. Presidential Candidates and the Elections, vol. 1, p. 374.
New York Times, 10/26/1919 |
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