Hangen, Charles P., Hon.

The following data is extracted from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans.

Hon. Charles P. Hangen, who has recently finished his second term as member of the State Legislature, is one of the prominent bankers of Sumner County, being cashier of the National Bank of Commerce at Wellington.

He was born in Darke County, Ohio, November 9, 1877, but has lived in Kansas since 1882. In that year his parents, Christian and Sarah Hangen, came to Kansas and located six miles southwest of Wellington on the farm still owned by Mrs. Hangen. Christian Hangen was a native of Germany and his wife of Ohio. He was successfully identified with general farming and stock raising in Sumner County until his death in 1903 at the age of fifty-five. In the meantime he had acquired a fine place of three quarter sections of land. His widow now resides in Wellington.

Charles P. Hangen in addition to the local schools attended the business college at Fort Scott, and has lived in Wellington since he was twenty-one years of age. In 1906 upon the organization of the National Bank of Commerce he was elected cashier, and his financial ability and his personal popularity have been important factors in the success and growth of that institution to one of the strongest banks in that part of Kansas.

Mr. Hangen is an active democrat. He was first elected a member of the House of Representatives from the Sixty-ninth District, including the northern part of Sumner County, in 1912, and was re-elected in 1914. He has served on the committees of banking, education and public health, and was especially active in shaping the health conservation law and also the proposed bill for a eugenics law, which however did not become a law.

On June 5, 1906, Mr. Hangen married Miss Edna Pratt.

Source: A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans

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