Charles Chesley Springer

Charles Chesley Springer (November 4, 1851 – March 8, 1922) was an American educator and politician from Maine. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the Maine Legislature.

Early life Springer was born in 1851 in Livermore, Maine, to George W. Springer and Olive T. Hill. He was their third child, after Mary and George, and was educated in the public schools of Yarmouth, Maine. He studied at North Yarmouth Academy (NYA), before graduating from Bowdoin College in 1874. He went on to study modern languages and political economy in Paris and at the University of Leipzig.

Career Upon returning to the United States from Europe, Springer became an instructor of modern languages at Bowdoin College for one year (1876 to 1877). After studying law, in 1879 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Maine Legislature by the Town of Yarmouth.

In 1880, Springer was secretary of the Hale Investigating Committee, which was formed by Eugene Hale to examine the alleged attempt to falsify election ballots. He filed a patent for an improvement in pulp-digesters for paper-making in 1885.

Later life

Springer retired in 1915 and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts.