2 Quotes & Sayings By Edmund Carver
Edmund Carver (August 4, 1808 – February 9, 1874) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Carver was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, the son of a sea captain. He graduated from Harvard University in 1828, studied law at Litchfield Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut, and was admitted to the bar in 1830
Later that year he married Sarah Lawrence, his first cousin. Together they had four children: Edmund Jr., Mary, Emilie and Henry. In 1830 he moved to Peterborough, New Hampshire where he practiced law for several years. In 1833 he moved to Boston where he joined the law firm of John Davis Bradlee after serving as a clerk for the state supreme court.
In 1834 he began his active public life as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and then as a member of the Massachusetts State Senate from 1835 to 1837. In 1840 he was elected as a Whig to the United States House of Representatives, serving from March 4, 1841 until March 3, 1845 when the Whig caucus expelled Carver for voting against its candidate for speaker. In September 1848 he formed his own law partnership with Francis Hallett Ames and settled in Boston where he remained until his death. In 1850 he was appointed by President Millard Fillmore as United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, serving until January 1, 1861 when President Abraham Lincoln appointed him Collector of Customs for Boston Harbor. Carver died at home in Boston on February 9, 1874 after an illness of one week's duration.
He is interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts The Edmund S. Carver House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places The Edmund S. Carver Middle School is located in North Andover, MA The Edmund S.
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