Charles G. Bangert was born March 3, 1879, at Sabula, Iowa.  After graduating from Westmar College at LaMars, Iowa, with a degree in business administration, he went to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he worked as a law clerk, later going to Sheldon, South Dakota, where he was a bank clerk and learned court reporting while also reading law.  A year later he went to Rock Rapids, Iowa, where he worked in a bank abstract and law office for two years, then moved to Morris, Minnesota as an office manager and abstractor for the Iowa and Minnesota Land Company.  Having met Ed Pierce, he came in 1904 to Sheldon, North Dakota to do some abstracting for him and stayed on with Pierce's organization for six years.  During that time he studied law by correspondence at the University of North Dakota, passing his bar exams in 1906.  In 1910 Mr. Bangert opened his own law office at Enderlin, North Dakota.  He served for twenty years as attorney for the Soo Railroad and for forty years as City Attorney for Enderlin.  He helped organize the Peoples Bank of Enderlin and was president for five years.  He was secretary of the Enderlin Farmers Elevator and of the Ransom County Farmer Press which took over the Enderlin Independent for the Nonpartisan League from 1919 to 1925.  He was a state senator from Ransom County in 1933 and was associated for many years with the Nonpartisan League.  He was also director and organizer with his son, Harold, in the American Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Fargo, and assistant Attorney General of North Dakota.

On March 4, 1903, at Rock Rapids, Iowa, Mr. Bangert was married to an elocutionist, Sarah Wallace, born September 4, 1879, at Grace Hill, Iowa.  They had three children, Harold, Constance, and Dorothy.  Mrs. Bangert died in 1967, and Mr. Bangert died in Fargo on June 10, 1969.

He belonged to the Masons and El Zagal Shrine, and the Elks Club of Fargo.  He was also a member of the Kiwanis Club, Golf Club, and Chamber of Commerce of Enderlin. 
 

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