J. Edwin Ellerbe

James Edwin Ellerbe ( born January 12, 1867 in Sellers, Marion County, South Carolina, † October 24, 1917 Asheville, North Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1905 and 1913 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

J. Edwin Ellerbe attended the Pine Hills Academy and then studied at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He finished his education in 1887 at Wofford College in Spartanburg. In the following years Ellerbe worked in agriculture. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party.

Between 1894 and 1896 Ellerbe sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. In 1895 he was a delegate at a meeting to Ṻberarbeitung the constitution of his home state. In 1904 he was considered the sixth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert B. Scarborough on March 4, 1905. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1913 four related legislative periods. Shortly before the expiration of his last term of office of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was enacted.

For the elections of 1912 he was not nominated by his party for another term. In the remaining years until his death in October 1917 Edwin Ellerbe again worked in agriculture. He was buried in the family cemetery in his hometown Sellers.