Edward Hammond (politician)

Edward Hammond (* March 17, 1812 in Ellicott City, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, † October 19, 1882 ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1853 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Hammond attended the common schools and the Rock Hill Academy. After he graduated in 1830, the Yale College. After a subsequent law school in New Haven ( Connecticut ) and in Baltimore and his 1833 was admitted to the bar he began in Annapolis to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1839, 1841 and 1842, he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. In 1848 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1848, Hammond was the third electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Watkins Ligon on March 4, 1849. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1853 two legislative sessions. He was chairman of the Committee on Engraving. In 1852 he gave up another candidacy.

In the years 1861 and 1867, Hammond was once again a member of the Lower House of Maryland. Since 1867 he worked as a judge in the fifth judicial district of his state. Edward Hammond died on October 19, 1882 on the estate of Fonthill near Ellicott City, where he was also buried.

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