Charles Richard Eckert was born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Piersol's Academy at West
Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, and
Geneva College at
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in
Beaver, Pennsylvania.
Political career He was a delegate to the
1928 Democratic National Convention. Eckert was elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-fourth and
Seventy-fifth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1938.
Retirement and death 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. ==Sources==