J. Edwin Ellerbe

James Edwin Ellerbe (born January 12, 1867 in Sellers , Marion County , South Carolina , †  October 24, 1917 in Asheville , North Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1905 and 1913 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

J. Edwin Ellerbe attended Pine Hills Academy and then studied at the University of South Carolina in Columbia . He graduated from Wofford College in Spartanburg in 1887 . In the following years Ellerbe worked in agriculture. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Between 1894 and 1896 Ellerbe was a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina . In 1895 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the constitution of his home state. In 1904 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of South Carolina , where he succeeded Robert B. Scarborough on March 4, 1905 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1913 . Shortly before the end of his last term of office, the 16th amendment came into force.

For the elections of 1912 he was no longer nominated by his party for a further term. In the remaining years until his death in October 1917, Edwin Ellerbe worked again in agriculture. He was buried in the family cemetery in Sellers, the town of his birth.

Web links

• J. Edwin Ellerbe in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• J. Edwin Ellerbe in the database of Find a Grave (English)