Biography
Charles Arnette Towne was an American lawyer and politician who served in both houses of United States Congress. He represented Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1895 to 1897 and in the U.S. Senate from 1900 to 1901. He later represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1905 to 1907. He was the last Democratic senator from Minnesota, before the state's Democratic Party merged with the Farmer-Labor Party to form the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party.

