Edward W. Townsend

Edward W. Townsend

Edward Waterman Townsend (born February 10, 1855 in Cleveland , Ohio , †  March 15, 1942 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1915 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Townsend attended both public and private schools in his homeland. In 1875 he moved to San Francisco , California , where he worked in the press and literary work. From 1893 he continued these activities in New York. From 1900 he lived in Montclair, New Jersey. Townsend wrote novels, plays, short stories and even a treatise on the United States Constitution . Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1910 congressional elections , Townsend was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the seventh constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded Richard W. Parker on March 4, 1911 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1915 . Since 1913 he represented the tenth district of his state as the successor to James A. Hamill . During his tenure as Congressman, the 16th and 17th amendments were ratified. Townsend was not re-elected in 1914.

Between 1915 and 1923 he worked as a postman in Montclair. In 1924 he moved back to New York, where he again worked in the newspaper business and as a writer. Townsend also became a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1914 . He died in New York on March 15, 1942 and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica .

Web links

• Edward W. Townsend in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edward W. Townsend in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Members: Edward W. Townsend. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 29, 2019 .