Edwin Legg
North Carolina Senate
In office
1868–1869
Personal details
Died (aged 57)
Political partyRepublican

Edwin Legg (died 1894) was a delegate to the 1868 North Carolina Constitutional Convention and a state legislator in North Carolina. He represented New Hanover County and Brunswick County in the North Carolina Senate after the Reconstruction era North Carolina Constitution of 1868 was passed.[1]

Biography

Legg served in the Union Army.[2] One source describes him as an ex-sutler of the Federal Army.[3] He worked for the customs service in Wilmington.[4]

In 1868 he was paid for work as postmaster of the Smithville post office.[5][6] He resigned as Smithville's postmaster in 1874. He was also documented as a merchant.[7] He was elected a delegate for Brunswick County, North Carolina, at the 1868 North Carolina Constitutional Convention.[8][9]

He was selected along with Abraham Galloway to stand on the Republican ticket for the 15th senatorial district.[10] Both candidates were successfully elected.[11] He represented Brunswick County and New Hanover County in the North Carolina Senate from 1868 until 1869.[12]

He was white.[13]

Legg died October 7, 1894, in Worcester, Massachusetts, from a heart attack aged 57.[14] He was buried in Brookfield, Massachusetts, and was survived by his wife and son.[14] His wife, Mrs. Harriet J. Legg died a few months later in July 1895.[15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "North Carolina State Senate - 1868-1869". www.carolana.com.
  2. ↑ Hamilton, Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac (December 10, 1914). Reconstruction in North Carolina. Columbia University. ISBN 9781404762961 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Reminiscences of Wilmington and Smithville-Southport-1848-1900. Walter Gilman Curtis (1905), Southport Historical Society, 1999, pp 46-48) via http://www.1898wilmington.org/TheCarpetbaggers.shtml
  4. ↑ Commission, United States Civil Service (December 10, 1878). "Official Register: Persons in the Civil, Military and Naval Service of the United States, and List of Vessels". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1868.
  6. ↑ Interior, United States Department of the (December 10, 1868). "Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval ..." U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Reaves, Bill (December 10, 1985). "Southport (Smithville): A Chronology". Broadfoot Publishing Company – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ Convention, North Carolina Constitutional (December 10, 1868). "Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of North-Carolina, at Its Session 1868". J. W. Holden, convention printer – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ Connor, Robert Digges Wimberly (December 10, 1913). "A Manual of North Carolina". North Carolina Historical Commission – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ "Republican State Executive Ticket". The Wilmington Post. 22 April 1868. p. 2. Retrieved 4 February 2023.Open access icon
  11. ↑ "North Carolina official election results". The Daily Standard. 26 May 1868. p. 4. Retrieved 4 February 2023.Open access icon
  12. ↑ Carolina, North (December 10, 1870). "Public Laws of the State of North-Carolina, Passed by the General Assembly, at Its Session of ..." Holden & Wilson – via Google Books.
  13. ↑ Hume, Richard L.; Gough, Jerry B. (October 10, 2008). Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807134702 – via Google Books.
  14. 1 2 "Death of Mr. E Legg". The Wilmington Morning Star. 26 October 1894. p. 1. Retrieved 4 February 2023.Open access icon
  15. ↑ "Death of Mrs Harriet J. Legg". The Wilmington Morning Star. 28 July 1895. p. 1. Retrieved 4 February 2023.Open access icon
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