Edward Woodruff Seymour (August 30, 1832 – October 16, 1892) was a Democratic member of the

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from

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, son of Origen Storrs Seymour, great-nephew of

Horatio Seymour Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810February 12, 1886) was an American politician. He served as Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1868 United States presidential elec ...

. Born in

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, Seymour attended the public schools and was graduated from

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in 1853. He studied law. He was

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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

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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

, on October 16, 1892. He was interred in East Cemetery.

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