Edwin Hallowell | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 7th district | |
In office March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893 | |
Preceded by | Robert Morris Yardley |
Succeeded by | Irving Price Wanger |
Personal details | |
Born | Willow Grove, Pennsylvania | April 2, 1844
Died | September 13, 1916 Abington, Pennsylvania | (aged 72)
Resting place | Abington Friends Burying Ground in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania |
Political 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
[edit]Edwin Hallowell was born near Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools.
Early political career
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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.
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- United States Congress. "Edwin Hallowell (id: H000084)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-02-14
- The Political Graveyard
External links
[edit]- "Edwin Hallowell". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2009-04-11.