Edwin W. Higgins

Dear Edwin Higgins ( born July 2, 1874 in Clinton, Connecticut, † September 24, 1954 in Norwich, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1905 and 1913 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Higgins attended the Norwich Free Academy. After studying law at the law school of Yale University and his 1897 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to practice in his new profession in Norwich. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1899 and 1900 was Higgins deputy in the House of Representatives from Connecticut. Between 1900-1905 he was a member of the State Board of his party. At the same time he was health officer in New London County. In the years 1901 and 1902 and 1919-1922 he acted as financial advisor to the City of Norwich. In this city he worked in 1905 as a prosecutor. In 1904 and 1916 Higgins was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant.

After the change of Congressman Frank B. Brandegee in the Senate Higgins was in 1905 at the due election in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he took over on October 2, 1905 its new mandate, which he could exercise until March 3, 1913 three elections. Before the elections of 1912 he was not nominated by his party for another term in Congress.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Edwin Higgins again worked as a lawyer. During the First World War he served in the National Guard of Connecticut. Between 1932 and 1946 he was a prosecutor at the Court of Appeals in New London County. He died in September 1954 in Norwich.