John Edwards (politician, 1748)

John Edwards

John Edwards (* 1748 in Stafford County , Colony of Virginia , †  1837 near Paris , Kentucky ) was an American politician who represented the state of Kentucky in the US Senate .

John Edwards moved in 1780 to Fayette County , which at that time was still part of the state of Virginia, and worked there as a planter . From 1781 to 1783 and from 1785 to 1786 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Virginia . In 1788 he was a member of the commission that set the boundaries for the future state of Kentucky; four years later he attended the meeting that created the state constitution for Kentucky.

When Kentucky joined the Union, Edwards and John Brown became the new state's first two US Senators. Both took office on June 17, 1792; Edwards' tenure in the Senate ended on March 3, 1795, while Brown remained there until 1805.

After his departure from Congress , Edwards was a member of the House of Representatives in his state that same year ; from 1796 to 1800 he was then a member of the Kentucky Senate . Then he withdrew from politics. He died on his Bourbon County plantation in 1837 .

Web links

• John Edwards in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Edwards in the database of Find a Grave (English)