Don C. Edwards

Don Calvin Edwards ( born July 13, 1861 in Moulton, Appanoose County, Iowa, † September 19, 1938 in London, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1905 and 1911 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1869, Don Edwards moved with his parents to Erie in Kansas. He attended the public schools in Iowa and Kansas and graduated from Campbell University in Holton. He then worked in Erie in the banking and insurance industry. In 1892 he moved to London in Kentucky, where he went into the lumber business. He also dealt with the manufacture of pins. In addition, he was president of the National Bank of London. Between 1898 and 1904 he was clerk at the District Court in Laurel County.

Edwards was a member of the Republican Party. In 1908, he led the regional convention in Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1904 he was in the eleventh electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of W. Godfrey Hunter on March 4, 1905. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1911 three legislative periods. Since 1909 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For the 1910 elections, he was not confirmed.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Edwards worked again in the wood and banking in London. In June 1912 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, at the President William Howard Taft was nominated for re-election. In 1918, he competed unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the congressional elections. He died on September 19, 1938 in London.