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EDMUNDS, GEORGE FRANKLIN (1828– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 949 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDMUNDS, See also:GEORGE See also:FRANKLIN (1828– ) , See also:American • lawyer and See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born in See also:Richmond, See also:Vermont, on the 1st of See also:February 1828. He began the practice of See also:law in 1849. He was a member of the Vermont See also:House of Representatives in 1854, 1855, 1857, 1858 and 1859, acting for the last two years as See also:speaker, and was a member and See also:president See also:pro tem. of the See also:state See also:Senate in 1861-1862. In 1866 he became a member, as a Republican, of the See also:United States Senate, where he remained until 1891, when he resigned in See also:order to have more See also:time for the practice of his profession. He took an active See also:part in the See also:attempt to impeach President See also:Johnson. He was influential in providing for the electoral See also:commission to decide the disputed presidential See also:election of 1876, and became one of the commissioners. In the See also:national Republican nominating conventions of 188o and 1884 he was a See also:candidate for the presidential nomination. From 1882 to 1885 he was president pro tem. of the Senate. As senator he was conspicuous on See also:account of his legal and See also:parliamentary attainments, his See also:industry and his liberal opinions. He was the author of the so-called Edmunds See also:Act (22nd of See also:March 1882) for the suppression of See also:polygamy in See also:Utah, and of the See also:anti-See also:trust law of 189o, popularly known as the See also:Sherman Act.

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