US Congressman. Elected as a Republican to represent Missouri's 15th District in the Fifty-Ninth Congress, he served from 1905 to 1907. Raised in Missouri's Knox County, he moved with his parents to Kansas at age 13 and later attended the State Agricultural College at Manhattan. Following independent law study, he was admitted to the bar in 1881 and returned to Missouri six years later, where he maintained a law practice in Neosho, Newton County, for many years. Shartel first came to prominence as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1900, but his one term in Congress was undistinguished, and he was not a candidate for renomination. He remained active within the state's Republican Party, however, serving as President of the Missouri Constitutional Conventions of 1922 and 1923, and once more as RNC delegate (1936). During the Depression, he worked with farm loans. His son, Stratton Shartel, served as Missouri Attorney General.
US Congressman. Elected as a Republican to represent Missouri's 15th District in the Fifty-Ninth Congress, he served from 1905 to 1907. Raised in Missouri's Knox County, he moved with his parents to Kansas at age 13 and later attended the State Agricultural College at Manhattan. Following independent law study, he was admitted to the bar in 1881 and returned to Missouri six years later, where he maintained a law practice in Neosho, Newton County, for many years. Shartel first came to prominence as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1900, but his one term in Congress was undistinguished, and he was not a candidate for renomination. He remained active within the state's Republican Party, however, serving as President of the Missouri Constitutional Conventions of 1922 and 1923, and once more as RNC delegate (1936). During the Depression, he worked with farm loans. His son, Stratton Shartel, served as Missouri Attorney General.
Bio by: Bobb Edwards
