FARNSLEY, Charles Rowland Peaslee (1907-1990)
Democrat of Kentucky 
3rd congressional district
Served in House 1965-1966
Biography
A Representative from Kentucky; born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., March 28, 1907; attended Male High School, Louisville; University of Louisville, A.B., 1930, and LL.B., 1942; was admitted to the bar in 1930 and began practice in Louisville; served in the State house of representatives, 1936-1940; mayor of Louisville, 1948-1953; delegate to Democratic National Convention, 1952; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967); was not a candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; served as publisher and president of Lost Cause Press; was a resident of Glenview, Ky., until his death in Louisville on June 19, 1990; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
