Edward L. Stokes

Edward Lowber Stokes ( born September 29, 1880 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † November 8, 1964 in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1935 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Stokes attended the public schools of his home and then the St. Paul 's School in Concord (New Hampshire). After that, he was employed for some time at a company. Later he worked in the investment industry. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1930 he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

After the death of Mr George Scott Graham Stokes was at the due election for the second 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 3, 1931. After a re-election, he could remain until January 3, 1935 at the Congress. Since 1933, he represented there as a successor of Robert Lee Davis the sixth election district of his state. His time as a congressman was overshadowed by the Great Depression. Since 1933, the first of the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted.

In 1934 Stokes renounced a new Congress candidacy. Instead, he applied for the post of governor of Pennsylvania, was not nominated by his party. Otherwise he worked until his retirement in 1955 as an investment banker. In 1950, he sought unsuccessfully to return to Congress. Two years later failed his candidacy for the office of mayor of Philadelphia. Edward Stokes spent his life in Newtown Square, a town in Delaware County, where he died on 8 November 1964.