Edward C. Mann

Edward C. Mann

Edward Coke Mann (born November 21, 1880 in Lowndesville , Abbeville County , South Carolina , †  November 11, 1931 in Rowesville , South Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1921 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Mann attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1901 the military school The Citadel in Charleston . He then worked for a year as a teacher and for another five years for a tobacco company. After studying law at the University of South Carolina at Columbia and his admission to the bar in 1906, he began practicing his new profession in St. Matthews . Between 1916 and 1919 he was a district attorney in the South Carolina First Judicial District.

Politically, Mann became a member of the Democratic Party . After the resignation of Congressman Asbury Lever , he was elected in the due by-election in the seventh constituency of South Carolina as his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington . There he took up his new mandate on October 7, 1919. By March 3, 1921, he ended the current legislative period of his predecessor. During this time, the 19th amendment to the constitution was passed, through which the right to vote for women was introduced nationwide.

Edward Mann was no longer nominated by his party for the regular congressional elections of 1920. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. Since 1923 he served as a Masters in Equity in Orangeburg County . Edward Mann died on November 11, 1931 in a hunting accident near Rowesville. He was buried in Orangeburg .

Web links

• Edward C. Mann in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edward C. Mann in the database of Find a Grave (English)