Edward Wade, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Edward Wade

American politician

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1802

Place of Birth: West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 13-Aug-1866

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Edward Wade

  • Edward Wade (November 22, 1802 – August 13, 1866) was a U.S.
  • Representative from Ohio, brother of Benjamin Franklin Wade. Born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, Wade received a limited schooling.
  • He moved to Andover, Ohio, in 1821, where he studied law.
  • He was admitted to the bar in 1827 and commenced practice in Jefferson, Ohio.
  • He was served as Justice of the Peace of Ashtabula County in 1831.
  • He moved to Unionville in 1832.
  • He served as prosecuting attorney of Ashtabula County 1833.
  • He moved to Cleveland in 1837. Wade was elected as a Free-Soil candidate to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1861).
  • In January 1854, he was one of six signatories of the "Appeal of the Independent Democrats", drafted to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1860. He died in East Cleveland, Ohio, August 13, 1866, and was interred in Woodland Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.

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