Edwin Hanson Webster

Edwin Hanson Webster (* March 31, 1829 in Churchville, Harford County, Maryland, † April 24, 1893 in Bel Air, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1865 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Webster visited the Church Will Academy and then the New London Academy in Chester County, Pennsylvania. In 1847 he graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle. After that, he worked for some time as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree in 1851 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Bel Air to work in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the American Party. Between 1855 and 1859 he sat in the Senate of Maryland, which he was president in 1858.

In the congressional elections of 1858 Webster was in the second electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Barroll Ricaud on March 4, 1859. After two re- election as a Unionist, he could remain until his resignation in July 1865 in Congress. Since 1861, this period was marked by the events of the Civil War, took part in the Webster in the years 1862 and 1863 in addition to his deputies work as colonel of an infantry unit from Maryland.

Webster's resignation came after he had been appointed in the port of Baltimore to head the customs authority. He held this position between 27 July 1865 and 15 April 1869. He then practiced as a lawyer again in Bel Air Between 1882 and 1886 he headed once again the customs office at the port of Baltimore. He also went into the banking industry. Edwin Webster died on April 24, 1893 in Bel Air and was buried near Churchville.