He became affiliated with the Democratic Party in 1900 . He served as delegate to the 1900 Democratic National Convention . He was an unsuccessful candidate for election as a Democrat in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress . He was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Ecuador in July 1913 and served until May 14 , 1922 , when he returned to Bozeman . He moved to Great Falls in 1926 and resumed the practice of law . He moved to Fort Benton in 1927 , having been appointed judge of the twelfth judicial district of Montana on March 3 , 1927
1900 Democratic National Convention
1900 Democratic National Convention
Charles S. Hartman