Charles M. Thacker was born January 17, 1866, and raised on his father's farm in Brunswick County, Virginia.

This job lasted about a year, long enough for Thacker to realize that he would never earn enough money to return to Virginia to settle down.

Besides, his health was suffering, so Thacker decided to move to a higher altitude and drier climate in northwestern Texas.

Governor Robert L. Williams appointed him on November 1, 1915, to fill a vacancy on the court caused by the death of Justice G. A.

He had been ill for a week from inflammation of the pancreas, according to the Hollis Post Herald of Harmon County, Oklahoma on February 21, 1918.