Edwin Sylvanus Osborne (August 7, 1839 – January 1, 1900) was a Republican member of the

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from

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Biography

Edwin S. Osborne was born in

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. He attended the public schools and the University of Northern Pennsylvania at Bethany. He graduated from the New York State and National Law School at

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, in 1860. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He entered the

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on August 30, 1862, as

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of Company F, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was promoted to

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of that regiment on February 25, 1865, and served until honorably discharged on July 25, 1865. He was appointed by Governor

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of the National Guard, Third Division, of Pennsylvania in 1870. He served as commander of the Department of Pennsylvania in the Grand Army of the Republic in 1883. Osborne elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1890. He was a delegate to the

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. He resumed the practice of law in Wilkes-Barre. In 1898 he moved to

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, and lived in retirement until his death on January 1, 1900. Interment in

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References

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