Thomas O. Edwards

Thomas Owen Edwards (born March 29, 1810 in Williamsburg , Wayne County , Indiana Territory , †  February 5, 1876 in Wheeling , West Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1847 and 1849 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Edwards attended preparatory schools. After a subsequent medical degree at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and his approval as a doctor, he began to work in this profession from 1836 in Lancaster (Ohio). At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Whig Party .

In the congressional election of 1846 Edwards was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded Augustus L. Perrill on March 4, 1847 . Since he was not confirmed in 1848, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1849 . This was overshadowed by the events of the Mexican-American War . He accompanied former President and then Congressman John Quincy Adams when he suffered his fatal stroke in Parliament.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Thomas Edwards was, among other things, inspector of naval hospitals. He then worked in the pharmacy industry in Cincinnati . There he was a member of the city council and professor at Ohio Medical College . He later lived in Wisconsin and Iowa for some time . During the Civil War he was a doctor with an Iowa volunteer unit. Around 1870 he returned to Lancaster, where he practiced as a doctor again. In 1875 he moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he died on February 5, 1876.

Web links

• Thomas O. Edwards in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas O. Edwards in the database of Find a Grave (English)