1. Charles Parlange was a Louisiana state senator, United States Attorney, Louisiana Lieutenant Governor serving under Governor Murphy J Foster, Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Charles Parlange entered private practice in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana from 1873 to 1880.
Charles Parlange was named United States Commissioner from Louisiana to the Paris Exposition of 1878 and was a member of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1879.
Charles Parlange was a member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1880 to 1885.
Charles Parlange was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1885 to 1889.
Charles Parlange resumed private practice in New Orleans from 1889 to 1892.
Charles Parlange was the Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 1892 to 1893.
Charles Parlange was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana from 1893 to 1894.
Charles Parlange was nominated by President Grover Cleveland on December 11,1893, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana vacated by Judge Edward Coke Billings.
Charles Parlange was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 15,1894, and received his commission the same day.
Charles Parlange's service terminated on February 4,1907, due to his death in New Orleans.
Charles Parlange was interred in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.
Charles Parlange was the uncle of Virginie Amelie Avegno Gautreau, better known as Madame X of John Singer Sargent's celebrated portrait.