Edward I. Edwards

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Edward I. Edwards
37th Governor of New Jersey
In office January 20, 1920 – January 15, 1923
Preceded by	Clarence Edward Case as Acting Governor
Succeeded by	George Sebastian Silzer
United States Senator from New Jersey
In office March 4, 1923 – March 3, 1929
Preceded by	Joseph S. Frelinghuysen
Succeeded by	Hamilton F. Kean
Member of the New Jersey Senate
In office 1918
Personal details
Born	Edward Irving Edwards (1863-12-01)December 1, 1863 Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	January 26, 1931(1931-01-26) (aged 67) Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Blanche Smith (1888-1928; her death)
Children	2

Edward Irving Edwards (December 1, 1863 – January 26, 1931) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 37th Governor of New Jersey from 1920 to 1923 and in the United States Senate from 1923 to 1929.^[1]

Contents

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  1 Life and career
  


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  2 Death
  


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  3 See also
  


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  4 References
  


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  5 External links
  

Life and career

Edwards was born in 1863 in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Emma J. (Nation) and William W. Edwards. Edwards attended the Jersey City public schools and New York University. He later studied law in the office of his brother, William David Edwards, who was also a state senator.^[2] On November 14, 1888, he married Blanche Smith. They had two children, Edward Irving, Jr. and Elizabeth Jules. He engaged in banking and in the general contracting business. He later became president and chairman of the board of directors of the First National Bank of Jersey City.^[1]

Edwards entered politics and became part of the Democratic Organization, being elected state senator in 1918. He became a friend and close political ally of Mayor Frank "Boss" Hague, who ran the Democratic machine in Hudson County, and later the whole state of New Jersey. Hague supported Edwards's gubernatorial run in 1919.

At the end of his term, forbidden by the state constitution to run for a consecutive term, he ran for the United States Senate in 1922. Campaigning against the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) and with the support of the Hague Democratic Political Machine, Edwards defeated incumbent Republican Joseph S. Frelinghuysen by almost 90,000 votes and served from March 4, 1923 to March 3, 1929.

After six years in the Senate, Edwards ran for re-election against Republican Hamilton Kean in 1928. Kean came out against Prohibition also which hurt Edwards who used his "Applejack Campaign" so successfully in the past. Also, Edwards could not overcome the "Coolidge Prosperity" that was sweeping the country. He lost by over 230,000 votes, having 41.8% of the vote to Kean's 57.8%.

After returning to Jersey City in March 1929, his luck turned for the worse. His wife had died in 1928 and his relationship with Mayor Hague went downhill when Hague supported A. Harry Moore instead of Edwards for governor. He went broke in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and was implicated in an electoral fraud scandal.

Death

He was diagnosed with skin cancer and shot himself in his apartment at 131 Kensington Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey on January 26, 1931.^[1] He was 67 years old. He was buried in Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery in the plot of his older brother, William David Edwards, who died in 1916.

See also

• List of Governors of New Jersey


• List of people with reduplicated names

References

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   ^ ^abc "Edward I. Edwards Ends Life By Bullet. Ex-Senator And Governor Of New Jersey Found Dead In His Apartment". New York Times. January 27, 1931. 
   


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   ^ The Political Graveyard
   

External links

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  Biography for Edward I. Edwards (PDF), New Jersey State Library
  


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  United States Congress. "Edward I. Edwards (id: E000066)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.  for Edward Irving Edwards


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  New Jersey Governor Edward Irving Edwards, National Governors Association
  

Political offices
Preceded by Clarence Edward Case Acting Governor	Governor of New Jersey January 20, 1920 – January 15, 1923	Succeeded by George Sebastian Silzer
U.S. Senate
Preceded by Joseph S. Frelinghuysen	U.S. Senator (Class 1) from New Jersey March 4, 1923 – March 4, 1929	Succeeded by Hamilton F. Kean
Party political offices
Preceded by H. Otto Wittpenn	Democratic Nominee for Governor of New Jersey 1919	Succeeded by George Sebastian Silzer
Preceded by James E. Martine	Democratic Nominee for the U.S. Senate (Class 1) from New Jersey 1922, 1928	Succeeded by A. Harry Moore

v t e Governors of New Jersey
Proprietary Province	Carteret
East New Jersey	Carteret Barclay Hamilton Basse Hamilton
West New Jersey	Byllynge Coxe Hamilton Basse Hamilton
Dominion of New England (1688–89)	Andros
Royal Governors	Viscount Cornbury Baron Lovelace Ingoldesby (Lt. Gov.) Hunter Burnet Montgomerie Morris (acting) Cosby Anderson (acting) Hamilton (acting) Lord De La Warr Morris Hamilton (acting) Reading (acting) Belcher Reading (acting) Pownall (Lt. Gov.) Reading (acting) Bernard Boone Hardy Franklin
Post-Colonial	Livingston Paterson Howell Bloomfield Ogden W.S. Pennington M. Dickerson Williamson Vroom Southard Seeley Vroom P. Dickerson W. Pennington Haines Stratton Haines G. Fort Price Newell Olden Parker Ward Randolph Parker Bedle McClellan Ludlow Abbett Green Abbett Werts Griggs Voorhees F. Murphy Stokes J. Fort Wilson Fielder Edge Edwards Silzer Moore Larson Moore Hoffman Moore Edison Edge Driscoll Meyner Hughes Cahill Byrne Kean Florio Whitman DiFrancesco McGreevey Codey Corzine Christie P. Murphy
Book:Governors of New Jersey

v t e United States Senators from New Jersey
Class 1	Elmer Rutherfurd Davenport Schureman Ogden Condit Lambert Wilson Southard McIlvaine Bateman Dickerson Southard W. Dayton R. F. Stockton Thomson Field J. Wall Wright F. T. Frelinghuysen J. Stockton Randolph Sewell Blodgett J. Smith J. Kean Martine J. Frelinghuysen Edwards H. Kean Moore Milton Barbour Walsh A. Smith Williams Brady Lautenberg Corzine Menendez
Class 2	Paterson Dickinson F. Frelinghuysen R. Stockton J. Dayton Kitchell Condit Dickerson T. Frelinghuysen G. Wall Miller Wright Ten Eyck J. Stockton Cattell F. T. Frelinghuysen McPherson Sewell Dryden Briggs Hughes Baird Edge Baird Jr. Morrow Barbour Smathers Hawkes Hendrickson Case Bradley Torricelli Lautenberg Chiesa Booker

v t e (1916 ←) United States presidential election, 1920 (→ 1924)
Democratic Party Convention	Nominee James M. Cox VP nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Candidates William Gibbs McAdoo A. Mitchell Palmer Al Smith John W. Davis Edward I. Edwards Woodrow Wilson Robert Latham Owen
Republican Party Convention	Nominee Warren G. Harding VP nominee Calvin Coolidge Candidates Leonard Wood Frank Orren Lowden Hiram Johnson William Cameron Sproul Nicholas Murray Butler Calvin Coolidge Robert M. La Follette Jeter Connelly Pritchard Miles Poindexter Howard Sutherland Herbert Hoover
Third party and independent candidates Socialist Party of America Nominee Eugene V. Debs VP nominee Seymour Stedman Farmer–Labor Party Nominee Parley P. Christensen VP nominee Max S. Hayes Prohibition Party Nominee Aaron S. Watkins VP nominee D. Leigh Colvin American Party Nominee James E. Ferguson VP nominee William J. Hough Socialist Labor Party Nominee William Wesley Cox VP nominee August Gillhaus Single Tax Nominee Robert Colvin Macauley VP nominee Richard C. Barnum
Other 1920 elections: House Senate

Authority control	WorldCat Identities LCCN: no2008025044 SNAC: w65q8fnj US Congress: E000066 VIAF: 71192686