Edward D. Hayden

Edward Daniel Hayden (* December 27, 1833 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, † November 15, 1908 in Woburn, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1889 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Hayden attended Lawrence Academy in Groton and then studied until 1854 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree in 1857 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Woburn in this profession. During the Civil War was Hayden paymaster in the U.S. Navy. He was used among other things under Admiral David Dixon Porter during the Second Vicksburg campaign and the Red River campaign. After the war he returned to Woburn, where he worked in the trade. He also became involved in the banking industry. Between 1874 and 1900 he was president of the First National Bank. Hayden was also active in the railroad business. For over 30 years he served as a board member of the Boston and Albany Railroad same time, he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1880 and 1882 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1884 Hayden was in the fifth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Leopold Morse on March 4, 1885. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1889 two legislative sessions. In June 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, at the Benjamin Harrison was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the same year he renounced a new Congress candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives sat Edward Hayden continued his earlier activities. He became vice president of the Boston and Albany Railroad and director of Shawmut National Bank of Boston. He died on 15 November 1908 in Woburn and was buried in his hometown of Cambridge.