Edward Hills Wason

Edward Hills Wason ( born September 2, 1865 in New Boston, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; † February 6, 1941 ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1933 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Wason attended both public and private schools, including the Francestown Academy. In 1886 he graduated from the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Then he studied until 1890 at Boston University in Massachusetts law. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession in Nashua (New Hampshire).

Wason was a member of the Republican Party. He was hired in the administration of the Senate of New Hampshire; there he practiced intermittently from the honorary position of Sergeant at Arms. Between 1891 and 1895, Wason was also a member of the Board of Education of the city of Nashua, in 1895 he was its president. He also appeared in the 1894 and 1895 legal representatives of this city. In 1897 and 1898 he was a member and chairman of the local city council.

In the years 1899, 1909 and 1913 Edward Wason was elected to the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. 1902 and 1912 he was a delegate to two meetings to revise the constitution of New Hampshire. From 1903 to 1907 he served as District Attorney in Hillsborough County. Since 1904 until his death in 1941 was Wason President of the Citizen's Guaranty Savings Bank in Nashua. In addition, since 1906 he dealt in Merrimack with agriculture. In the years 1906 and 1908 he was again at the City Council of Nashua.

1914 Wason in the second electoral district of New Hampshire was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Raymond Bartlett Stevens on March 4, 1915. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 a total of nine contiguous legislatures. In this time of the First World War, the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage, the Prohibition Act and the beginning of the Great Depression fell at the beginning of the 1930s. In 1933 also the 20th Amendment to the Constitution has been adopted, the new fixed its date of commencement of office of the President and the Congress.

In 1932 Edward Wason opted not to run again. He retired from public life and died on February 6, 1941 at his estate in New Boston, New Hampshire. There he was also buried.