Paul C. Edmunds

Paul C. Edmunds

Paul Carrington Edmunds (born November 1, 1836 in Halifax County , Virginia , †  March 12, 1899 in Houston , Virginia) was an American politician . Between 1889 and 1895 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Paul Edmunds initially received a private education and then studied until 1855 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville . After a subsequent law degree at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg and his admission to the bar in 1857, he began to work in this profession in Jefferson City ( Missouri ). In 1859 he returned to Virginia, where he worked in agriculture on his farm in Halifax County. During the Civil War he was a lieutenant in the Confederation Army . After the war he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1881 and 1888 he was a member of the Virginia Senate . In July 1884 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where Grover Cleveland was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1888 congressional election , Edmunds was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Virginia , where he succeeded Samuel I. Hopkins on March 4, 1889 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1895 . From 1891 he was chairman of the Committee for the Control of Expenditures of the Ministry of Agriculture.

In 1894 Paul Edmunds renounced another congressional candidacy. He died in Houston on March 12, 1899.

Web links

• Paul C. Edmunds in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Paul C. Edmunds in the database of Find a Grave (English)