Edward S. Minor

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Edward S. Minor (1903)

Edward Sloman Minor (born December 13, 1840 in Point Peninsula , Jefferson County , New York , †  July 26, 1924 in Sturgeon Bay , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1907 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Minor and his parents came to what was then Wisconsin Territory as early as 1845 . The family settled first in Greenfield and then in Milwaukee . He attended the public schools in his new home. In 1852 he moved with his family to Sheboygan County and finished his education there. He also worked in agriculture. During the Civil War , he rose from 1861 to 1865 in a volunteer unit from Wisconsin from ordinary soldier to first lieutenant.

After the war, Minor worked in the hardware store in Sturgeon Bay from 1865 to 1884 . At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In the years 1877, 1881 and 1882 he sat as a deputy in the Wisconsin State Assembly . Between 1883 and 1886 he was a member of the State Senate , of which he was President in 1886. From 1884 and 1891 he was superintendent in charge of the shipping canal between Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan . Edward Minor served on the Wisconsin State Fisheries Commission for four years. In 1894 he was elected Mayor of Sturgeon Bay City.

In the 1894 congressional election , Minor was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded Lyman E. Barnes on March 4, 1895 . After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1907 . Since 1903 he represented there as the successor of Webster E. Brown the ninth district. During his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Minor served as chairman of the Home Office's Expenditure Control Committee from 1903 to 1907. The Spanish-American War of 1898 also fell during his time as Congressman .

In 1906, Minor was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. In the following years he dealt with horticulture, among other things. Between 1911 and 1915 he was a postman in his hometown of Sturgeon Bay, of which he was once again mayor in 1918. Edward Minor died on July 26, 1924 in Sturgeon Bay and was buried there.

Web links

  • Edward S. Minor in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)