Edwin Hallowell (April 2, 1844 – September 13, 1916) was a Democratic member of the

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Biography

Edwin Hallowell was born near

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. He attended the public schools. He engaged in agricultural pursuits, and was elected as a member of the

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, serving from 1876 to 1879. He was chairman of the Democratic county committee of

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, in 1886. He was a delegate to the 1888 Democratic National Convention. Hallowell was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress. He was a delegate to the Democratic Presidential Convention that nominated Grover Cleveland for president, second term.Obituary, Edwin Hallowell. The Bucks County Intelligencer. August 21, 1916. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892. Owing to his physical disabilities Hallowell led a private life for the last years of his life. He was a bachelor and made his home with his sister on the farm on Plank Road in Abington Township. He resumed agricultural pursuits, and died in Abington, Pennsylvania. Interment in Abington Friends Burying Ground in

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* 1844 births 1916 deaths Hallowell family Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub