Edward C. Marshall

Edward Colston Marshall ( born June 29, 1821 Woodford County, Kentucky; † July 9, 1893 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Marshall visited the Centre College in Danville and then studied at Transylvania University in Lexington. He then completed further studies at Washington College, later Washington and Lee University. During the Mexican-American War, Marshall served in the U.S. Army. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in San Francisco to work in this profession. Later he transferred his residence and his law firm to Sonora. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the state- wide discharged congressional elections of 1850 Marshall was the first seat of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Washington Wright on March 4, 1851. As he withdrew his candidacy for re-election in 1852, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1853. This was determined by the discussions on the question of slavery.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Marshall practiced in Marysville as a lawyer. In 1856 he applied unsuccessfully for election to the U.S. Senate. Then he moved to Kentucky, where he worked for 21 years as a lawyer. In 1874 he was a candidate in the state unsuccessfully for Congress. In 1877 he returned to San Francisco where he continued working as a lawyer. Between 1883 and 1886 practiced Edward Marshall of the Office of the Attorney General of California. He died on July 9, 1893 in San Francisco.