Edward T. England

Edward Theodore England ( born September 29, 1869 in Gay, Jackson County, West Virginia, † September 9, 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio ) was an American politician. Between 1927 and 1929 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward England attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1892, the Concord Normal School in Athens. Then he taught for several years even as a teacher. After studying law at the Southern Normal University at Huntingdon (Tennessee ) and its made ​​in 1898 admitted to the bar he began in Oceana to work in his new profession. In 1901 he moved his residence and his law firm to Logan.

England was a member of the Republican Party and was elected in 1903 as mayor of Logan. Between 1908 and 1916 he was a member of the Senate of West Virginia, which he became president in 1915. Through this office he held in the years 1915 to 1916 at the same time the functions of Vice- Governor; officially, there is this post in West Virginia only since 2000. In 1915 he was chairman of the first national meeting of all vice governors of the United States, which took place in Rhea Springs (Tennessee). Between 1917 and 1925, England was Attorney General of West Virginia. He also served as legal representative of the State in the Supreme Court, as was negotiated there because of compensation claims of the State of Virginia. It was about claims for services rendered for West Virginia, as the area was still part of Virginia. England in 1923 was president of the Association of Attorney Generals of all U.S. states.

In 1924, Britain competed unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the upcoming gubernatorial election. In 1926 he was selected in the sixth district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the Democrats J. Alfred Taylor on March 4, 1927. But since he lost to Joe L. Smith already at the next elections in 1928, England was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1929. After the end of his time in Congress England worked as a lawyer in Charleston. He died on September 9, 1934 in Cleveland and was buried in Charleston.