Edward Daniel Hayden (December 27, 1833 – November 15, 1908) was a

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. Born in

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, Hayden attended the Lawrence Academy,

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, and graduated from

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in 1854. He studied law. He was

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in 1857 and commenced practice in

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. He entered the

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as assistant paymaster in 1861, and served in the Mississippi Squadron under Admiral Porter in the Vicksburg and Red River campaigns. He returned to

, in 1866 and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He served as president of the First National Bank 1874–1900. He served as a member of the

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from 1880 to 1882. Hayden was elected as a

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to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1889). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1888. He served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1888. He served for more than thirty years on the directorate of the

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, and at the time of his death was vice president. He served as a selectman and later as an alderman. He served as a director of the Shawmut National Bank of Boston. He died in

, November 15, 1908. He was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery,

References

* Jeffries, B. J.,
News from the Classes 1854
' The Harvard graduates' magazine Vol. XVII March 1909. No. 67.
New York Times, ''EDWARD D. HAYDEN DIES IN HIS PEW
Vice President of the Boston & Albany Railroad Stricken with Apoplexy. EX-MEMBER OF CONGRESS Was Assistant Paymaster In the Navy, Serving in the Mississippi Squadron Under Admiral Porter'' Page 9, (November 16, 1908). *Rand, John Clark,
One of a Thousand
A series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts''. pages 293–294, (1890). {{DEFAULTSORT:Hayden, Edward Daniel 1833 births 1908 deaths Harvard University alumni Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives United States Navy officers Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery American bank presidents Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American businesspeople