Edward Wemple

Edward Wemple ( born October 23, 1843 in Fultonville, New York, † December 18, 1920 ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Wemple was born about three years before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in Montgomery County. He attended community schools in Fultonville and the Ashland Academy in Greene County. In 1866, he graduated from Union College in Schenectady. He studied law for a time. Then he went to the foundry business. He was 1873 President of the Village of Fultonville. In 1874 he was supervisor of Glen - a post he held until 1876. He sat in the years 1877 and 1878 in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1882 for the 48th Congress of Wemple in the 20th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George West on March 4, 1883. After an unsuccessful attempt to re-election in 1884 for the 49th Congress, he retired after March 3, 1885 from the Congress.

After his time Congress he resumed his former business activities. In 1885 he sat in the Senate from New York. He was elected in 1887 to the Comptroller of New York - a position which he held for two terms. A renewed candidacy failed. He died about two years after the end of World War I in Fultonville and was then buried in the Maple Avenue Cemetery.