Edward J. Livernash

Edward James Liver Nash ( born February 14, 1866 San Andreas, Calaveras County, California, † June 1, 1938 in Agnew, California ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1905 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in the mining camp Lower Calveritas near San Andreas Edward Livermore Nash attended the public schools of his home. After that he started at the age of 15 years to work in the printing trade. In the following years he became involved in the newspaper industry. He founded a newspaper in Cloverdale. Liver Nash then studied law until 1887, but without working as a lawyer. Instead, he remained in the journalism industry. Since 1891 he worked in various functions at the newspaper San Francisco Examiner. During the gold rush in Alaska and the adjacent Canadian areas, he was commissioned in 1897 by the Klondike gold seekers to negotiate with the authorities in Canada through a change in the arduous for the prospectors laws.

Moreover Liver Nash began a political career. In the congressional elections of 1902 he was appointed as joint candidate of the Democratic Party and the Union Labor Party in the fourth electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of his defeated Republican Julius Kahn on March 4, 1903. Until March 3, 1905, he was able to complete a term in Congress.

In 1906, Nash Liver editor of the newspaper Denver News. Between 1909 and 1912 he lived in France. Upon his return to California, he settled in Belmont, where he addressed, among other literary matters. Since his retirement from Congress in 1905, Edward Livermore Nash officially named Edward James de Nivernais. This Namansänderung that is based on the French form of his family name, was officially confirmed by a court. He died on 1 June 1938 in Agnew, now a district of Santa Clara.