Edward Henry Carroll Long

Edward Henry Carroll Long ( born September 28, 1808 in Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland, † October 16, 1865 ) was an American politician. Between 1845 and 1847 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Long attended the common schools and then studied until 1828 at Yale College. After a subsequent law degree in 1830 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Princess Anne to work in this profession. He was also engaged in farming. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Mid-1830s he became a member of the Whig Party, founded at that time. Between 1833 and 1835, and in 1839, 1844 and 1861, he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland.

In the congressional elections of 1844 Long was in the sixth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Ara Spence on March 4, 1845. Since he resigned in 1846 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1847. This was overshadowed by the events of the Mexican-American War.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Long operated again as a lawyer and in agriculture. In 1860 he was a member of the Senate of Maryland. In the same year, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. He died on October 16, 1865 in his home town of Princess Anne.