Charles Morton Webb (December 30, 1833 – August 12, 1911) was an American lawyer, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.
[1] Webb received a basic education there, but left school at age 12 to work as a typesetter in a printing office.
[3][4] He was elected District Attorney of Wood County, Wisconsin, in 1858 and was re-elected in 1860, but resigned in 1861 to volunteer for service in the American Civil War.
In the summer of 1870, after the end of the legislative session—which ran from January 12 through March 17—Webb was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin by President Ulysses S. Grant.
In the fall of 1881, he was appointed register of the United States General Land Office in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, but resigned the following summer to return to Wisconsin.
However, he would attempt several times to seek higher office: In 1893, he ran for election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, but was defeated by Alfred Newman;[6] in 1894, he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Governor against William H.