Charles V. Blanchard
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Charles V. Blanchard was an American
United States
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 politician
Politician
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 who served as a Massachusetts State Representative
Massachusetts House of Representatives
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 and a Massachusetts State Senator
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.

While he was a member of the Massachusetts House
Massachusetts House of Representatives
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 Blanchard developed a close friendship with Calvin Coolidge. Blanchard, it was rumored, taught Coolidge how to properly dress for various occasions.

Blanchard did not seek reëlection to the senate in 1913. Blanchard was replaced by Charles W. Eldridge
Charles W. Eldridge
Charles Wadleigh Eldridge was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature as a member of the Board of Aldermen and as the seventeenth Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts....

for the 1914 legislative term.

Blanchard worked for many years for the N. E. Tel & Tel Co.

Blanchard had a heart attack and died while he was on a trip to Florida, where he had gone to spend the winter.
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