Edwin Legg Explained

Office1:North Carolina Senate
Term Start1:1868
Term End1:1869
Party:Republican

Edwin Legg (died 1894) was a delegate to the 1868 North Carolina Constitutional Convention and a state legislator in North Carolina. He represented New Hanover County and Brunswick County in the North Carolina Senate after the Reconstruction era North Carolina Constitution of 1868 was passed.[1]

Biography

Legg served in the Union Army.[2] One source describes him as an ex-sutler of the Federal Army.[3] He worked for the customs service in Wilmington.[4]

In 1868 he was paid for work as postmaster of the Smithville post office.[5] [6] He resigned as Smithville's postmaster in 1874. He was also documented as a merchant.[7] He was elected a delegate for Brunswick County, North Carolina, at the 1868 North Carolina Constitutional Convention.[8] [9]

He was selected along with Abraham Galloway to stand on the Republican ticket for the 15th senatorial district.[10] Both candidates were successfully elected.[11] He represented Brunswick County and New Hanover County in the North Carolina Senate from 1868 until 1869.[12]

He was white.[13]

Legg died October 7, 1894, in Worcester, Massachusetts, from a heart attack aged 57.[14] He was buried in Brookfield, Massachusetts, and was survived by his wife and son.His wife, Mrs. Harriet J. Legg died a few months later in July 1895.[15]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: North Carolina State Senate - 1868-1869. www.carolana.com.
  2. Book: Hamilton, Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac. Reconstruction in North Carolina. December 10, 1914. Columbia University. 9781404762961 . Google Books.
  3. Reminiscences of Wilmington and Smithville-Southport-1848-1900.Walter Gilman Curtis (1905), Southport Historical Society, 1999, pp 46-48) via http://www.1898wilmington.org/TheCarpetbaggers.shtml
  4. Web site: Official Register: Persons in the Civil, Military and Naval Service of the United States, and List of Vessels. United States Civil Service. Commission. December 10, 1878. U.S. Government Printing Office. Google Books.
  5. Book: Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval . 1868 . U.S. Government Printing Office .
  6. Web site: Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval .... United States Department of the. Interior. December 10, 1868. U.S. Government Printing Office. Google Books.
  7. Web site: Southport (Smithville): A Chronology. Bill. Reaves. December 10, 1985. Broadfoot Publishing Company. Google Books.
  8. Web site: Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of North-Carolina, at Its Session 1868. North Carolina Constitutional. Convention. December 10, 1868. J. W. Holden, convention printer. Google Books.
  9. Web site: A Manual of North Carolina. Robert Digges Wimberly. Connor. December 10, 1913. North Carolina Historical Commission. Google Books.
  10. News: Republican State Executive Ticket . 4 February 2023 . The Wilmington Post . 22 April 1868 . 2.
  11. News: North Carolina official election results . 4 February 2023 . The Daily Standard . 26 May 1868 . 4.
  12. Web site: Public Laws of the State of North-Carolina, Passed by the General Assembly, at Its Session of .... North. Carolina. December 10, 1870. Holden & Wilson. Google Books.
  13. Book: Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction. Richard L.. Hume. Jerry B.. Gough. October 10, 2008. LSU Press. 9780807134702 . Google Books.
  14. News: Death of Mr. E Legg . 4 February 2023 . The Wilmington Morning Star . 26 October 1894 . 1.
  15. News: Death of Mrs Harriet J. Legg . 4 February 2023 . The Wilmington Morning Star . 28 July 1895 . 1.

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