John Edwards (Pennsylvania)

John Edwards ( * 1786 in Ivy Mills, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, † June 26, 1843 in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1839 and 1843 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After studying law and his 1807 was admitted as a lawyer John Edwards began working in Chester in this profession. In 1811 he was Deputy Attorney General in the local Delaware County. Since 1825 he lived in Westchester. He later ironware and especially nails her. Politically he was first a member of the Anti- Masonic Party. Around the year 1840 he moved to the Whigs.

In the congressional elections of 1838, Edwards was in the fourth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward Darlington on March 4, 1839. After a re-election as a candidate of the Whigs, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1843 two legislative sessions. The time from 1841 was marked by the tensions between President John Tyler and the Whigs. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Edwards took his previous activities on again. He died on June 26, 1843, a few months after the end of his last term in Congress, on his estate near Glen Mills. His great- nephew John E. Leonard (1845-1878) was a congressman for Louisiana.