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Senate Years of Service: 1919-1929 Party: Republican
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EDGE, Walter Evans, a Senator from New Jersey; born in Philadelphia, Pa., November 20, 1873; moved
with his parents to Pleasantville, N.J., in 1877; attended the public schools; employed in a printing
office in Atlantic City, N.J., 1890-1894; newspaper owner and publisher; journal clerk of the State
senate 1897-1899; during the Spanish-American War served as a second lieutenant; secretary of the
State senate 1901-1904; member, State house of assembly 1910; member, State senate 1911-1916,
serving as president in 1915; Governor of New Jersey 1917-1919, when he resigned, having been
elected United States Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1918;
reelected in 1924 and served from March 4, 1919, until his resignation on November 21, 1929, to
accept a diplomatic post; chairman, Committee on Coast and Insular Survey (Sixty-sixth Congress),
Committee on Interoceanic Canals (Sixty-seventh through Seventy-first Congresses), Committee on
Post Office and Post Roads (Sixty-eighth Congress); appointed Ambassador to France by President
Herbert Hoover 1929-1933; again Governor of New Jersey 1944-1947; died in New York City,
October 29, 1956; interment in Northwood Cemetery, Downingtown, Pa.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
Edge, Walter. A Jerseymans Journal, Fifty Years of American Business and Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948; Levering, Ralph B. Partisanship, Ideology, and
Attitudes toward Woodrow Wilson: New Jerseys Republican Senators and the League of Nations
Controversy, 1918-1920. New Jersey History 109 (Fall/Winter 1991): 1-13.
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