Joseph K. Edgerton

Joseph Ketchum Edgerton ( born February 16, 1818 in Vergennes, Addison County, Vermont, † August 25 1893 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1863 and 1865 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Edgerton was the younger brother of Congressman Alfred Peck Edgerton (1813-1897) from Ohio. He attended the public schools in Clinton County, New York. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began in 1839 in New York City to work in this profession. In 1844 he moved his residence and his law firm to Fort Wayne in Indiana. In his new home Edgerton has been renowned in the railway business. As a result, he was President of several railway companies.

Politically Edgerton was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1862 he was in the tenth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican William Mitchell on March 4, 1863. Since he lost in 1864 against Joseph H. Defrees, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1865. This was determined by the events of the Civil War.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, Joseph Edgerton withdrew from politics. He died on 25 August 1893 in Boston and was buried in Fort Wayne.

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