Edwin J. Jorden

Edwin James Jorden (* August 30, 1863 in Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, † September 7, 1903 in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. In 1895 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Jorden attended the common schools and the Keystone Academy and the State Normal School in Mansfield. After a subsequent law degree in 1888 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Tunkhannock in Wyoming County in this profession. Politically, he joined the Republican Party.

After the death of Mr Myron Benjamin Wright, who had already been confirmed at the time of his death for the next legislative session, Jorden was at the due election for the 15 seats of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 23 February 1895. Since he was not a candidate in the elections for the next session, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1895. He was a congressman for only eight days. The by-election for the next term of office won James Hodge Codding.

After his short time in the U.S. House of Representatives Edwin Jorden again practiced as a lawyer. He died on September 7, 1903 in Tunkhannock, where he was also buried.