Edmund Waddill

Edmund Waddill Jr. (born May 22, 1855 in Charles City County , Virginia , †  April 9, 1931 in Richmond , Virginia) was an American lawyer and politician . In the years 1890 and 1891 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives ; later he became a federal judge .

Career

Edmund Waddill initially received a private school education. He then attended the Norwood Academy . He then worked as a deputy clerk in various Virginia district courts. After studying law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and being admitted to the bar in 1877, he began working in this profession in Richmond . Between 1880 and 1883 he was a judge in Henrico County . He then served until 1885 in the succession of John Sergeant Wise as a federal prosecutor for the eastern part of Virginia. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1886 and 1889 he was a member of the Virginia House of Representatives . In 1886 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress .

In the 1888 congressional elections, Waddill was defeated by the Democratic incumbent George D. Wise . However, he appealed against the outcome of the election. When this was granted, he was able to take over the mandate from Wise on April 12, 1890 and end the current legislative period in Congress by March 3, 1891. In the elections of 1890 he decided not to run again.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Edmund Waddill practiced as a lawyer again. In 1892 and 1896 he was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions . He later held various positions as a federal judge. First, in March 1898, he followed the resigned Robert William Hughes as a judge at the federal district court for the eastern district of Virginia. In May 1921 US President Warren G. Harding then nominated him as the successor to the late Jeter Connelly Pritchard as judge at the Federal Court of Appeals for the fourth district; after confirmation by the US Senate , Waddill was able to take up this office on June 2 of the same year. He died in Richmond on April 9, 1931; his seat at the federal appeals court fell to Morris Ames Soper .

Web links

• Edmund Waddill in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edmund Waddill in the database of Find a Grave (English)