Charles Risk

Charles Risk

Charles Francis Risk (August 19, 1897 - December 26, 1943) was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.

Born in Central Falls, Rhode Island, Risk attended the public and high schools. He worked in textile plants. During the First World War served in the United States Army as a private at Camp Meigs in 1918. He was employed in the Treasury Department, Washington, D.C. from 1919 to 1922. He was graduated from the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1922. He was admitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in Central Falls, Rhode Island, the same year. He served as probate judge of Central Falls 1929-1931, as coroner of Lincoln, Rhode Island, in 1931 and 1932, and as judge of the eleventh district court of Rhode Island 1932-1935. He served as delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1936, 1940, and 1942.

Risk was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Francis B. Condon and served from August 6, 1935, to January 3, 1937. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

Risk was elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1941). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He died in Saylesville, in the township of Lincoln, Rhode Island, December 26, 1943. He was interred in St. Francis Cemetery, Pawtucket, Rhode Island.