Charles C. Kearns was born in
Tonica, Illinois. He moved with his parents to
Georgetown, Ohio, in 1874. He attended the public schools in Georgetown, Ohio,
Ohio Northern University at
Ada, and
National Noral University in
Lebanon, Ohio. He taught school in
Brown County, Ohio. He graduated from the
Cincinnati Law School in 1894, and was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in
Batavia, Ohio. He was the managing editor of the
Las Vegas Daily Record in
Las Vegas, New Mexico, in 1900 and 1901 and of the
Daily Record in
Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1901 and 1902. He returned to Ohio in 1903 and practiced law in Batavia. He was the prosecuting attorney of
Clermont County, Ohio, from 1906 to 1909.
Congress Kearns was elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-fourth and to the seven succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1930 to the
Seventy-second Congress.
Later career and death He was engaged in the practice of law at
Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1930, and died in
Amelia, Ohio. Interment in Mount Moriah Cemetery in
Tobasco, Ohio. ==Sources==