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'''Charles Henry Bliss''' was [[Mayor of Pensacola]] from [[1905]] to [[1906]]. He was also a publisher of a [[Bliss magazines|quarterly magazine]] called at various time Bliss' Magazine, The Bliss Magazine, and Bliss' Quarterly.
==Early life==
Bliss married Matilda Sophia Wilcox on [[April 17]], [[1879]] in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bliss, a member of the Mormon Church, was called to a mission in the southern states. Upon returning to Utah, he attended the University of Utah, and there became disillusioned with Mormonism. Bliss and his wife, who remained a devout follower, later divorced, and Bliss returned to his home state of Indiana.
Bliss settled in Kokomo, Indiana, where he taught school and edited a local newspaper. He remarried, to Gertrude Herman.
==In Pensacola==
In [[1895]], Bliss and his second wife moved to Pensacola. Bliss worked as a reporter and newspaper editor, also publishing the [[Bliss magazines]]. He later was engaged in the concrete business.
Bliss was elected [[Mayor of Pensacola]] in [[1905]], and was re-elected to a second term shortly before his death in [[1907]].
==Scuffle with W. C. Jones==
Shortly afterwards, Jones went to the police station to surrender himself when he again met Mayor Bliss and the war of words continued. Jones stated that the mayor was crooked and he knew it from the manner in which he had acted. Receiving some reply, the secretary dealt the mayor a blow on the jaw, which felled him. The police interfered and arrested Jones.|20px|20px|''Schley County (Georgia) News'', [[September 6]], [[1905]].}}
==References==
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{{succession box | before = [[Thomas Everett Welles]] | title = [[Mayor of Pensacola]] | years = 1905-1906 1907 | after = [[Calvin C. Goodman]]}}
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