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Charles

James Faulkner (September 21, 1847 – January

13, 1929) was a United States Senator from West Virginia

and the son of Charles James Faulkner Sr., a U.S. Representative from Virginia

and West Virginia. Born on the family estate, "Boydville," near Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia),

he accompanied his father, who was U.S. Minister to France, to that country in 1859; he

attended school in Paris

and Switzerland.

He returned to the United States in 1861, and during the Civil War entered the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington in 1862. He served with the cadets in

the Battle of New Market and, after the war,

graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville,

where he was a member of St. Anthony

Hall, in 1868. He was admitted to the bar

in 1868 and commenced practice in Martinsburg. In 1887, Faulkner was elected as

a Democrat

to the U.S. Senate; he was reelected in 1893 and served from March 4, 1887, to

March 3, 1899. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on

Territories (Fifty-third Congress). In 1898 he was appointed a member of the International

Joint High Commission of the United States and Great Britain. He

retired from public life and devoted his time to the practice of law in

Martinsburg and Washington, D.C., and to the management of his

agricultural interests. In 1922, he served as first president of the Opequon Golf

Club.

Faulkner died at the Boydville

family estate in 1929; interment was in the Old Norbourne Cemetery,

Martinsburg.