About Edward Woodruff Seymour
Lived 1832 – 1892 (aged 60). Edward Woodruff Seymour was an American politician, lawyer and judge.
Edward Woodruff Seymour (August 30, 1832 – October 16, 1892) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives 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 from 1859 to 1860, and from 1870 to 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.
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American politician (1832-1892)
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Edward Woodruff Seymour was born on 30 August 1832 in Litchfield.
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Edward Woodruff Seymour died on 16 October 1892 in Litchfield.
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