Eli M. Saulsbury

Eli May Saulsbury ( born December 29, 1817 in Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware; † 22 March 1893, in Dover, Delaware ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party.

Eli Saulsbury was the younger brother of Gove Saulsbury, who later became Governor of Delaware was; be 1820 -born brother Willard represented the state in the U.S. Senate as well as his son of the same.

After the school visit, Saulsbury wrote in Carlisle (Pennsylvania) at Dickinson College. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857, after which he began practicing in his home in Dover.

Politically, Saulsbury operated from 1853, when he became a member in the House of Representatives from Delaware was for two years. In 1870, he joined then in the fight for a seat in the Senate against his younger brother Willard, who was incumbent at this time, and prevailed. He was reelected twice, but failed at the fourth attempt at the Republican Anthony C. Higgins, so that his term of office ended on 3 March 1889. During his time in the Senate he was a member of the Committee on Privileges and Elections and the Committee on engrossed bills. He worked in the result again as a lawyer and died in Dover, where he was buried four years later.