Charles V. Truax

Who was Charles V. Truax?

Charles Vilas Truax was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born on a farm near Sycamore, Ohio, 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. Victor Donahey in 1923 and served until 1929. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1928. He engaged in the life insurance business in Columbus, Ohio, in 1928. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., August 9, 1935. He was interred in Pleasant View Cemetery, Sycamore, Ohio.