Edwin Flye

Edwin Flye

Edwin Flye (born March 4, 1817 in Newcastle , Massachusetts , † July 12, 1886 in Ashland , Kentucky ) was an American politician . From 1876 to 1877 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edwin Flye was born in 1817 in Newcastle, which was then part of Massachusetts and has been part of Maine since 1820. He attended the public schools in his home country and then worked in trade and shipbuilding. Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . In 1858 he was an MP in the Maine House of Representatives . For many years he was President of the First National Bank of Damariscotta . During the Civil War , Flye served as a major and purser in the Union Army. In June 1876 he took part as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati , at which Rutherford B. Hayes was nominated as a candidate for president.

After the change of Congressman James G. Blaine in the Senate Flye was when made necessary by-election in the third constituency of Maine as his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington selected. There he took up his new mandate on December 4, 1876. Since he no longer ran in the regular elections of that year, he could only end the legislature of his predecessor until March 3, 1877.

After his brief stint in the US House of Representatives, Edwin Flye worked in banking and shipbuilding. He died on July 12, 1886 while visiting his daughter in Ashland, Kentucky, and was buried in Newcastle.

Web links

• Edwin Flye in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edwin Flye in the database of Find a Grave (English)