Edwin R. Meade

Edwin Ruthven Meade ( born July 6, 1836 in Norwich, New York, † November 28, 1889 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1875 and 1877 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Ruthven Meade pursued an academic career. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1858 and then began to practice in Norwich. In 1872 he moved to New York City, where he had continued to work as a lawyer. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1874 Meade was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William R. Roberts on March 4, 1875. Since he gave up for reelection in 1876, he retired after March 3, 1877 from the Congress. Then he went back to his previous occupation. He died on 28 November 1889 in Ward's Iceland Insane Asylum in New York City from the effects of syphilis and was then buried in the cemetery in Greene.