Benjamin Edwards (Maryland)

Benjamin Edwards ( born August 12, 1753 Stafford County, Virginia; † November 13, 1829 in Elkton, Kentucky ) was an American politician. In 1795, he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Benjamin Edwards attended the common schools and worked afterwards in Montgomery County in Maryland in agriculture and in trade. At the same time he embarked on a political career. For several years he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. In 1788 he was a delegate to the meeting at which the state of Maryland ratified the Constitution of the United States. He was the federal government under President George Washington close (Pro - Administration Group ).

Following the resignation of Mr Uriah Forrest Edwards was elected to the due election for the third seat of Maryland as his successor in the Council, meeting at that time still in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on January 2, 1795. By 3 March the same year, he could only finish the current term in Congress. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Edwards moved to the Todd County, Kentucky. He died on 13 November 1829 in Elkton. His son Ninian (1775-1833) made ​​in the state of Illinois a political career as governor and U.S. senator.