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Henry Waggaman Edwards

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HENRY WAGGAMAN EDWARDS



Governor, House of Representatives, Senator, Speaker of the State Senate, State Senate




	    __JONATHAN EDWARDS1,9
	   |
       __PIERREPONT EDWARDS1
      |    |
      |    |     __James Pierpont7,9
      |    |    |
      |    |__Sarah Pierrepont1,9
      |         |
      |         |     __Samuel Hooker7
      |         |    |
      |         |__Mary Hooker7,9
      |              |
      |              |     __Thomas Willet8
      |              |    |
      |              |__Mary Willett7
      |                   |
      |                   |__Mary Brown8
      |
HENRY WAGGAMAN EDWARDS1
      |
      |                    __John Ogden6
      |                   |
      |               __Jonathan Ogden5
      |              |    |
      |              |    |__Jane Bond6
      |              |
      |          __Robert Ogden4
      |         |    |
      |         |    |__Rebekah (possibly Wood)5
      |         |
      |     __Moses Ogden3
      |    |    |
      |    |    |     __Jasper Crane4
      |    |    |    |
      |    |    |__Hannah Crane4
      |    |         |
      |    |         |__Joanna Swaine3
      |    |
      |__Frances Ogden2
	   |
	   |__Mary Cozzens3



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Biography of HENRY WAGGAMAN EDWARDS

 
EDWARDS, Henry Waggaman, (son of Pierpont Edwards), a Representative and a Senator from Connecticut; born in New Haven, Conn., in October 1779; was graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1797; studied law at the Litchfield Law School; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New Haven, Conn.; elected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1823); appointed in 1823 to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Elijah Boardman; subsequently elected and served from October 8, 1823, to March 3, 1827; member, State senate 1827-1829; member, State house of representatives 1830, and served as speaker; elected Governor of Connecticut in 1833; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834, but was again elected Governor in 1835, 1836, and 1837; resumed the practice of law; died in New Haven, Conn., on July 22, 1847; interment in Grove Street Cemetery.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Wheeler, William Ogden.  The Ogden Family in America.  Philadelphia:
       J.B. Lippincott Company, 1907.  257.
   2.  Ibid., p. 139-140.
   3.  Ibid., p. 84-86.
   4.  Ibid., p. 58-60.
   5.  Ibid., p. 45-46.
   6.  Ibid., p. 39-40.
   7.  Willett, Albert James, Jr., The Willett Families of North America,
       Volume I.  Easley:  Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1985.  15.
   8.  Ibid., p. 1-15.
   9.  Smith, Elizur Yale, "The Descendants of William Edwards Colonist of
       Connecticut Colony, 1639," The New York Genealogical and Biographical
       Record, 71 (1940):  216-224, 323-333; 72 (1941):  56-61, 124-132,
       213-220, 320-331; 73 (1942):  173-189, 251-254; 90 (1959):  193-197; 91
       (1960):  6-16, 110-118, 153-166, 233-235; 92 (1961):  23-34, 80-88,
       141-152, 221-226; 93 (1962):  13-21, 106-113, 143-148, 221-225; 94
       (1963):  15-26, 75-83, 148-154.

 

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