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John Wiley Edmands

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John Wiley Edmands

Birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
31 Jan 1877 (aged 67)
Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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US Congressman. Elected as a Whig to represent Massachusetts' 3rd District in the Thirty-third Congress, he served from 1853 to 1855. The Boston-born Edmands had a high school education and spent most of his adult life in the wool industry, eventually becoming treasurer of the Pacific Mills Co. in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He also owned a farm and other real estate in Newton, where he made his home. Edmands' tenure on Capitol Hill saw the fatal rupture of the Whig Party over the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), with its provisions for the expansion of slavery; whether for this reason or a desire to return to his business affairs, he refused to seek reelection. In 1868 he was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket but made no further bids for political office.
US Congressman. Elected as a Whig to represent Massachusetts' 3rd District in the Thirty-third Congress, he served from 1853 to 1855. The Boston-born Edmands had a high school education and spent most of his adult life in the wool industry, eventually becoming treasurer of the Pacific Mills Co. in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He also owned a farm and other real estate in Newton, where he made his home. Edmands' tenure on Capitol Hill saw the fatal rupture of the Whig Party over the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), with its provisions for the expansion of slavery; whether for this reason or a desire to return to his business affairs, he refused to seek reelection. In 1868 he was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket but made no further bids for political office.

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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7500263/john_wiley-edmands: accessed ), memorial page for John Wiley Edmands (1 Mar 1809–31 Jan 1877), Find a Grave Memorial ID 7500263, citing Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.