Edward Darlington (September 17, 1795 – November 21, 1884) was a three term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from

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from the Anti-Masonic Party. His cousins Isaac Darlington and

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were also both members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Edward Darlington was born in Middletown Township, Pennsylvania and grew up on a dairy farm. He taught school from 1817 to 1820. He studied law with Samuel Edwards and was admitted to the bar in 1821 and entered practice in

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. In 1824, Darlington was appointed deputy attorney general for Delaware County and served until 1830. In 1832, Darlington was elected as a member of the Anti-Masonic Party to the

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. In 1834, he was re-elected to the same office in the

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. Darlington served in Congress from 1833 to 1839. He was chairman of the

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during the Twenty-fourth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1838. He resumed the practice of law and served as attorney for county commissioners from 1846 to 1856. He moved to

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, in 1851 and served as district attorney of Delaware County from 1851 to 1854. Darlington was a director of the Delaware County National Bank, In 1842, Darlington was appointed director of the Delaware County Mutual Insurance Company. He died in Media and was interred in

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