Edwin Flye

Edwin Flye ( born March 4, 1817 in Newcastle, Lincoln County, Massachusetts, † July 12, 1886 in Ashland, Kentucky ) was an American politician. From 1876 to 1877 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Flye was born 1817 in Newcastle, which at that time was still part of Massachusetts, and is since 1820 part of Maine. He attended the common schools and was then in trade and shipbuilding works. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1858 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Maine. For many years he was president of the First National Bank of Damariscotta. During the Civil War Flye acted as major and paymaster in the army of the Union. In 1876 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati, was nominated at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Candidate.

After the change of Congressman James G. Blaine in the Senate Flye was when made ​​necessary by-election in the third electoral district of Maine as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he came into effect on December 4, 1876 at its new mandate. Since he did not run in the regular elections this year, he could only finish the term of his predecessor until March 3, 1877.

After the end of his short time in the U.S. House of Representatives worked Edwin Flye in the banking industry and in shipbuilding. He died on July 12, 1886 during a visit to his daughter in Ashland ( Kentucky) and was buried in Newcastle.