Charles Forrest Curry (March 14, 1858 - October 10, 1930) was a U.S. Representative from California and is the father of Charles Forrest Curry, Jr.

Curry was born in Naperville, Illinois and attended the common schools and the Episcopal Academy in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. He studied one year at the University of Washington at Seattle, and also was educated by a private tutor. He moved with his parents to Seattle, Washington, in 1872, and thence to San Francisco, California, in 1873. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and the cattle, lumber, and mining businesses. He served as a member of the State assembly in 1887 and 1888. He was admitted to the bar of San Francisco in 1888. He was the Superintendent of Station B post office, San Francisco from 1890 to 1894, and served as clerk of San Francisco city and county between 1894-1898. He was the Secretary of state of California, from 1899-1910. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1910. He was appointed building and loan commissioner of California in 1911. He was the Representative to the Panama Pacific International Exposition for the Pacific Coast and Intermountain States in 1911.

Curry was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, until his death in Washington, D.C., October 10, 1930. He served as chairman of the Committee on Territories (Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first Congresses). He was interred in Abbey Mausoleum (near Arlington National Cemetery), Arlington, Va. He was reinterred in National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Virginia.

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