Samuel Edwards

Samuel Edwards ( born March 12, 1785 Chester Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, † November 21, 1850 in Chester, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1819 and 1827 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Edwards attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1806 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Chester in this profession. Later he took part as a soldier in the British -American War of 1812. Politically he was first a member of the Federalist Party. Between 1814 and 1816 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1818 Edwards was the first electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Hopkinson on March 4, 1819. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1827 four legislative sessions. Since 1823, he represented the fourth district where his state. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson. From 1821 to 1825, Edwards was Chairman of the Committee for expenditure control Marinemministeriums.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Samuel Edwards practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1838 and 1842 he worked as a customs inspector. He died on 21 November 1850 in Chester, where he was also buried.