J. Wiley Edmands

John Wiley Edmands ( born March 1, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, † 31 January 1877 in Newton, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1853 and 1855 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Wiley Edmands attended the common schools and the English High School in Boston. In the following years he worked in Dedham and Lawrence in the wool textile industry. Politically, he was a member of the Whig party. In the congressional elections of 1852 he was in the third electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James H. Duncan on March 4, 1853. Since he resigned in 1854 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1855. This was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War.

In 1855, Edmands was Chief Financial Officer of the company Pacific Mills Co. in Lawrence. After the dissolution of the Whigs, he was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In the presidential election of 1868 he was an elected official of their choice men that General Ulysses S. Grant as U.S. president. Wiley Edmands died on 31 January 1877 in Newton.

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