Thomas M. Edwards

Thomas McKey Edwards ( born December 16, 1795 in Keene, New Hampshire; † May 1, 1875 ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1863 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Edwards initially enjoyed a private school and then studied until 1813 at Dartmouth College in Hanover. After studying law and its made ​​in 1817 admitted to the bar he began in Keene to work in his new profession. Between 1818 and 1829 he was also postmaster at this place. Between 1834 and 1839 he was several times delegate in the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. In 1845 he gave up his profession; for he went into the railway business. He supervised the construction of the Cheshire Railroad and its first president was. He was also president of a bank and a fire insurance company.

Edwards was a member of the Republican Party. In 1858 he was in the third district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Aaron H. Cragin on March 4, 1859. After a re-election in 1860 he was able to complete up to March 3, 1863 two terms in Congress, who were overshadowed by the events of the Civil War. In Congress, he experienced the exodus of MPs from the southern states who joined the Confederacy.

In 1862, Edwards gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the House of Representatives, he took his previous activities on again. Thomas Edwards died on May 1, 1875 in his home in Keene, where he was also buried.