Charles R. Eckert
Charles Richard Eckert (January 20, 1868 – October 26, 1959) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1939.Charles Richard Eckert was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in Beaver, Pennsylvania.Eckert was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses.After his time in Congress, he served as a member of board of directors of the Beaver Trust Co., and resumed the practice of law until his death, aged 91, as the result of an automobile accident in Rochester, Pennsylvania.