Edwin Hallowell

Edwin Hallowell ( born April 2, 1844 in Willow Grove, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, † September 13, 1916 in Abington, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Hallowell attended the common schools and worked in agriculture. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1876 and 1879 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In 1886 he was chairman of the party of the Democrats in Montgomery County; in June 1888 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis in part, to the President Grover Cleveland to be unsuccessful re-election has been nominated.

In the congressional elections of 1890 Hallowell was in the seventh election district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Republican Robert Morris Yardley on March 4, 1891. Since he has not been confirmed in 1892, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1893. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Howell is operated again in agriculture. He died on September 13, 1916, in Abington.