Edwin Hallowell Explained

Edwin Hallowell
Image Name:Edwin Hallowell (Pennsylvania Congressman).jpg
State:Pennsylvania
District:7th
Term Start:March 4, 1891
Term End:March 3, 1893
Preceded:Robert Morris Yardley
Succeeded:Irving Price Wanger
Birth Date:2 April 1844
Birth Place:Willow Grove, Pennsylvania
Death Place:Abington, Pennsylvania
Restingplace:Abington Friends Burying Ground in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
Party:Democratic

Edwin Hallowell (April 2, 1844 – September 13, 1916) was an American farmer and politician who served one term as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1891 to 1893.

Biography

Edwin Hallowell was born near Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools.

Early political career

He engaged in agricultural pursuits before being elected as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, serving from 1876 to 1879. He was chairman of the Democratic county committee of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1886. He was a delegate to the 1888 Democratic National Convention.

Congress

Hallowell was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress. He was a delegate to the Democratic Presidential Convention that nominated Grover Cleveland for president, second term.[1] He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892.

Later career and death

Owing to his physical disabilities Hallowell led a private life for the last years of his life. He was a bachelor and made his home with his sister on the farm on Plank Road in Abington Township.[1] He resumed agricultural pursuits, and died in Abington, Pennsylvania. Interment in.

References

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Notes and References

  1. Obituary, Edwin Hallowell. The Bucks County Intelligencer. August 21, 1916.