Edwin Sylvanus Osborne

Edwin Sylvanus Osborne ( born August 7, 1839 in Bethany, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, † January 1, 1900 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1891 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Osborne attended the common schools and then the University of Northern Pennsylvania, also in Bethany. After a subsequent law school in Albany (New York) and his 1860 was admitted to the bar he began in Wilkes-Barre to work in this profession. During the Civil War he served 1862-1865 in an infantry unit from Pennsylvania, who belonged to the army of the Union. He rose to the Major. After the war he became a member of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, where he was promoted to major general in 1870. Osborne was also a member of the Veterans Association of the Grand Army of the Republic, the regional commander for Pennsylvania he was in 1883.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1884, he won the state- wide discharged election to 28 seats of Pennsylvania, and he in Washington who succeeded Mortimer Fitzland Elliott on March 4, 1885. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1891 three legislative periods. Since 1889 he represented there as the successor of John Lynch twelfth electoral district of his state. In June 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in part, on the Benjamin Harrison was nominated as a presidential candidate. In 1890 he gave up another Congress candidate.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Osborne again practiced as a lawyer in Wilkes - Barre. In 1898 he moved to the federal capital, Washington, where he died on 1 January 1900. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.