The New York Lawyer
Charles
Charles thought back to the war, he had been in the Argonne Forest, it had not been a war he supported, but he still felt a sense of duty to his nation, and to his men. He had begun his life in Wisconsin, before heading to Harvard and finally settling into a New York law profession. In 1917, Charles had left his law practice and joined the United States Army, in the battle of Argonne Forrest, he led his battalion against the entire might of the German Army, of the over 550 men he had begun with only 190 would walk out of that forest. Charles had received the medal of honor for his actions, did Charles truly deserve it? No, the men who had lost their lives did, those who when out of ammunition fought off a hoard of Huns with their bayonets and when those were broken fought them off with their hands and feet kicking and screaming until killed or wounded so horribly they could no longer continue.
He was now back in New York, the year was now 1922 and he had spent the last 4 years as a hero to not just the immigrant population of the city, but the nation as a whole. In 1920, Charles had been elected to the United States Congress from New York's 2nd District, while for most of his life he had been quite apolitical he had run as a Republican, due to the power of the party among the nations political system, and their isolationist tendencies. He had seen the horrors of war on the Western Front, and he would do anything in his power for the horrors to not be repeated. He faced a difficult decision in the spring of 1922, though the incumbent Senator of New York William Calder was not popular among either the people of New York state or the political bosses of the Republican Party. He had been approached by many of the powerbrokers of the state and he believed it was his opportunity now to enter his name to become a prominent member of the GOP. He would challenge Calder, and he would become the United States Senator from New York.
