district predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place party term_end birth_date term_start image article_title state name
wisconsin 6 6th james h. davidson michael e. burke 08 october 1919 sheboygan falls , wisconsin sheboygan falls , wisconsin democrat march 3 , 1911 24 october 1866 march 4 , 1903 charleshweisse.jpg charles h. weisse
 wisconsin charles h. weisse
charles h. weisse

charles herman weisse -lrb- october 24 , 1866 - october 8 , 1919 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from wisconsin .
born near sheboygan falls , wisconsin , weisse attended the public schools and st. paul lutheran school .
in 1880 , he started to work in a tannery and later became a partner in 1888 .
he served as president of the city council of sheboygan falls , wisconsin from 1893 to 1896 .
he was treasurer of the school board from 1897 till 1900 .
he served as delegate to the democratic national conventions in 1904 and 1908 .
he was an unsuccessful democratic candidate for election in 1900 to the fifty-seventh congress .
weisse was elected as a democrat to the fifty-eighth and to the three succeeding congresses -lrb- march 4 , 1903 -- march 3 , 1911 -rrb- .
he represented wisconsin 's 6th congressional district .
he was not a candidate for renomination in 1910 to the sixty-second congress .
he engaged in the manufacture of leather and in various other business enterprises in his native city .
weisse was accidentally killed in sheboygan falls , wisconsin , on october 8 , 1919 .
he was interred in falls cemetery .
