PORTRAIT OF THE GOVERNOR OF NEW HAMPSHIRE :CHARLES A GATES : CABINET CARD : 1899 For Sale

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PORTRAIT OF THE GOVERNOR OF NEW HAMPSHIRE :CHARLES A GATES : CABINET CARD : 1899:
$49.99

This vintage cabinet card features American politician, Charles Winslow Gates (1856-1927). Gates served in the Vermont House of Representatives (1899-1900), the Vermont Senate (1901-1902), as the state Highway Commissioner, and as the 55th governor of Vermont (1915-1917). He was a progressive Republican governor. In 1916,Gates ran for the US Senate, but lost the election. Gates was born in Vermont. Upon graduation from St. Johnsbury Academy (1880), he became a teacher and then a principal at Franklin Academy until 1884. He than purchased an managed a store while maintaining his farm. He married in 1890. He became a Director of the Enosburg Falls Savings Bank and founded the Franklin Telephone Company in 1895. This cabinet card portrait is in very good condition (see scans).