Edward de Veaux Morrell

Edward de Veaux Morrell ( born August 7, 1863 in Newport, Rhode Iceland, † September 1, 1917 in Colorado Springs, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1900 and 1907 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Morrell attended private schools and then studied until 1885 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After a subsequent law degree in 1887 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working there in his profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1891 and 1894 he sat in the City Council of Philadelphia. Morrell was also active in the National Guard of the State of Pennsylvania, in which he brought it up to brigadier general.

After the death of Mr Alfred C. Harmer Morrell was in the due election for the fifth seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on November 6, 1900. After three re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1907 Congress. Since 1903, he was Chairman of the militia committee. In 1906 he gave up another candidacy.

Edward Morrell built the first telephone connection north of Frankford, and built there a power plant for the generation of electricity for electric lighting. Between 1912 and 1916 he was a member of the Education Committee of the City of Philadelphia. He then moved for health reasons to Colorado Springs, where he died on September 1, 1917. He was buried in Philadelphia.