| Charles Franklin Sprague | |
| Image Name: | Charles Franklin Sprague (1857–1902).png |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| District: | 11th |
| Term: | March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1901 |
| Preceded: | William F. Draper |
| Succeeded: | Samuel L. Powers |
| Office2: | Member of the Massachusetts State Senate |
| Constituency2: | Ninth Suffolk District |
| Term2: | January 1895 - January 1897 |
| Preceded2: | Francis William Kittredge[1] |
| Succeeded2: | Joshua Bennett Holden[2] |
| Office3: | Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives |
| Term3: | 1891-1892 |
| Office4: | Member of the Boston Common Council |
| Term4: | 1889–1890 |
| Birth Date: | June 10, 1857 |
| Birth Place: | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Death Place: | Providence, Rhode Island |
| Restingplace: | Mount Auburn Cemetery |
| Profession: | Attorney |
| Party: | Republican |
Charles Franklin Sprague (June 10, 1857 – January 30, 1902) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, grandson of Peleg Sprague (1793–1880).
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Sprague attended the public schools and was graduated from Harvard University in 1879. He studied law at Harvard Law School before completing his studies at BU Law. He was admitted to the bar in Boston.[3]
He married Mary Bryant Pratt in November 1891.[3] [4]
He served as member of the Boston Common Council in 1889 and 1890, and then in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1891 and 1892. He chaired the board of park commissioners of the city of Boston in 1893 and 1894, and served in the Massachusetts State Senate in 1895 and 1896.[5] [6]
Sprague was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1901). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress.
He died in the Butler Sanitarium in Providence, Rhode Island,[5] on January 30, 1902, and was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Watertown, Massachusetts.