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Charles Rodolf

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ16200412 ↗
Source-derived summary

Charles Rodolf (November 15, 1818 – July 5, 1898) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate.

Biography

Rodolf was born in Zurzach, Switzerland, in 1818. He moved to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1833 and to Wiota, Wisconsin in 1834.

His brother, Theodore Rodolf, was also a member of the Assembly.

Career

After twice being a member of the Assembly, Rodolf was a member of the Senate from 1859 to 1860. In 1864, he was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district, losing to incumbent Amasa Cobb. He was a Democrat.

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“Charles Rodolf” enters the record as american politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Charles, Rodolf and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1818, 1898, 1833, 1834—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1818. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Charles, Rodolf and American.
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“Charles Rodolf” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Charles, Rodolf and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16200412. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1818, 1898, 1833 and 1834.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charles Rodolf” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.