Charles Goadsby Ferris was a U.S. Representative

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 from New York

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Born at "The Homestead," Throgs Neck, the Bronx, New York, Ferris received a limited education.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar

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 and practiced in New York City.
He served as member of the board of aldermen in 1832 and 1833.

Ferris was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third

23rd United States Congress

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 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dudley Selden and served from December 1, 1834, to March 3, 1835.

Ferris was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Twenty-seventh

27th United States Congress

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Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843).
He was largely instrumental in securing an appropriation through Congress to build the first telegraph line.
He died in New York City June 4, 1848.