John Edwards (Pennsylvania politician)

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John Edwards
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 4th district
In office
March 4, 1839  March 3, 1843
Preceded by See below
Succeeded by Charles Jared Ingersoll
Personal details
Born 1786
Ivy Mills, Pennsylvania
Died June 26, 1843 (aged 56/57)
Glen Mills, Pennsylvania
Political party Anti-Masonic
Whig

John Edwards (1786 – June 26, 1843) was an Anti-Masonic and Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

John Edwards (granduncle of John E. Leonard) was born in Ivy Mills, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was deputy attorney general for Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in 1811. He moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1825 and shortly thereafter engaged in the manufacture of iron and later of nails near Glen Mills, Pennsylvania.

Edwards was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-sixth Congress and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress. After his time in congress, he resumed his former manufacturing pursuits, and died on his estate near Glen Mills in 1843. Interment in the Friends’ (Hicksite) Cemetery of the Middletown Meeting House in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

Sources

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
David Potts, Jr.
Edward Darlington
Edward Davies
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district

1839–1843

1839–1841 alongside: Francis James and Edward Davies
1841–1843 alongside: Jeremiah Brown and Francis James

Succeeded by
Charles J. Ingersoll


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