Alonzo J. Edgerton

Alonzo Jay Edgerton ( born June 7, 1827 in Rome, Oneida County, New York; † August 9, 1896 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican) of the State of Minnesota in the U.S. Senate represented.

After his schooling Alonzo Edgerton attended Wesleyan University in Middletown (Connecticut), where he made his degree in 1850. He moved to Minnesota in 1855 where he settled down in Mantorville. He subsequently studied law, was admitted to the bar and began to practice in his new hometown as a lawyer. Later he rose to the prosecutor on the Dodge County.

His first political mandate had erupted Edgerton 1858-1859 as a member of the Senate of Minnesota. After the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Union army and brought it there until the Brevet Brigadier General. He left the military in 1867 From 1871 to 1875 he served as railroad commissioner ( Railroad Commissioner) of Minnesota.; 1877-1879 he was again in the state Senate.

After the resignation of Finance Minister in the Federal Cabinet appointed U.S. Senator William Windom on March 7, 1881 Alonzo Edgerton was appointed to succeed him in Congress. But he remained only on 12 March 1881 to 30 October of the same year in Washington, before he gave his mandate back to Windom. This had resigned after the assassination of President James A. Garfield from his ministerial posts and was then promoted again to his former Senate seat.

Edgerton focused in the following years of his legal career. He was appointed chief judge in Dakota Territory; after the division of the territory into the states of North and South Dakota, he served in the southern state as a judge at the local federal district court. He also later stood before the Constitutional Convention of South Dakota as president. Edgerton died in August 1896 in Sioux Falls and was buried in Mantorville.