Edward Woodruff Seymour

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Edward Woodruff Seymour (August 30, 1832 – October 16, 1892) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut, son of Origen Storrs Seymour, great-nephew of Horatio Seymour.

Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, Seymour attended the public schools and was graduated from Yale College in 1853. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and practiced in Litchfield and Bridgeport, Connecticut. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1859, 1860, 1870, and 1871. He served in the State senate in 1876.

Seymour was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887). He resumed the practice of his profession. He was appointed as a judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1889. He died in Litchfield, Connecticut, on October 16, 1892. He was interred in East Cemetery.

[edit] References

• Edward Woodruff Seymour at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

[edit] External links

• Edward Woodruff Seymour at Find A Grave