Edward W. Seymour Explained

Edward Woodruff Seymour
Birth Date:30 August 1832
Birth Place:Litchfield, Connecticut
Death Place:Litchfield, Connecticut
Restingplace:East Cemetery
Residence:Litchfield, Connecticut
Office:Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
Term Start:1889
Term End:1892
Predecessor1:Sidney Burr Beardsley
Successor1:Simeon E. Baldwin
Office2:Member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut's 4th congressional district
Term Start2:March 4, 1883
Term End2:March 3, 1887
Predecessor2:Frederick Miles
Successor2:Miles T. Granger
Office3:Member of the Connecticut Senate
Term Start3:1876
Term End3: 
Office4:Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Term Start4:1859
Term End4:1860
Term Start5:1870
Term End5:1871
Party:Democrat
Alma Mater:Yale College (1853)
Occupation:lawyer

Edward Woodruff Seymour (August 30, 1832 – October 16, 1892) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut, son of Origen Storrs Seymour, great-nephew of Horatio Seymour.

Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, Seymour attended the public schools and was graduated from Yale College in 1853. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and practiced in Litchfield and Bridgeport, Connecticut.

He served as member of the State house of representatives from 1859 to 1860, and from 1870 to 1871. He served in the State senate in 1876.

Seymour was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887). He resumed the practice of his profession.

He was appointed as a judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1889.

He died in Litchfield, Connecticut, on October 16, 1892.He was interred in East Cemetery.

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