Charles Vilas Truax was a U.S. Representative

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 from Ohio

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Born on a farm near Sycamore, Ohio

Sycamore, Ohio

Sycamore is a village in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States. The population was 914 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Sycamore is located at ....

, Truax attended the public schools and was graduated from Sycamore High School.
He engaged in the implement business and afterward in agricultural pursuits.
He was editor of the Swine World magazine 1916-1921.
He was appointed director of agriculture of Ohio by Gov. A.V. Donahey in 1913 and served until 1929.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate

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 in 1928.
He engaged in the life insurance business in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

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, in 1928.
He was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Seventy-third

73rd United States Congress

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 and Seventy-fourth

74th United States Congress

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 Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C.

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, August 9, 1935.
He was interred in Pleasant View Cemetery, Sycamore, Ohio

Sycamore, Ohio

Sycamore is a village in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States. The population was 914 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Sycamore is located at ....

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