Edward W. Townsend

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Edward W. Townsend

| image = EdwardWTownsend.jpg

| caption =

| state1 = New Jersey

| constituency1 = {{ushr|NJ|7|C}} (1911–1913)
{{ushr|NJ|10|C}} (1913–1915)

| term_start1 = March 4, 1911

| term_end1 = March 3, 1915

| predecessor1 = Richard W. Parker

| successor1 = Frederick R. Lehlbach

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1855|2|10}}

| birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1942|3|15|1855|2|10}}

| death_place = New York City, U.S.

| resting_place = Forest Hill Cemetery
Utica, New York, U.S.

| party = Democratic

| spouse = {{marriage|Annie Lake|April 16, 1884}}

| signature = Signature of Edward Waterman Townsend.png

}}

Edward Waterman Townsend (February 10, 1855 – March 15, 1942) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1913, and the 10th district from 1913 to 1915, after redistricting following the United States Census, 1910.

Biography

Townsend was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on February 10, 1855; his father was Horace Gilbert Townsend.[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/1146/mode/2up TOWNSEND, Edward Waterman], in Who's Who in America (1901-1902 edition), via archive.org He attended private and public schools in that city. He went to San Francisco, California, in 1875 and engaged in newspaper and literary work. He married Annie Lake on April 16, 1884.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZToOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA46 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=XIV |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=46 |year=1910 |access-date=2020-12-13 |via=Google Books}}

He moved to New York City in 1893 and continued his reportorial and literary pursuits. In 1900, he became a resident of Montclair, New Jersey.

He was an author of novels, plays, short stories, as well as a textbook on the United States Constitution. His most popular fictional writings were his "Chimmie Fadden" Bowery boy stories.(17 March 1942). [https://www.nytimes.com/1942/03/17/archives/e-w-townsend-87-famous-reporter-author-of-stories-bringing-fame-to.html E. W. TOWNSEND, 87, FAMOUS REPORTER: Author of Stories' Bringing Fame to Bowery's Mythical Chimmie Fadden Dies - BECAME A CONGRESSMAN - Postmaster in Montclair for Many Years -- Served on The Sun in Days of Dana], The New York Times

=United States House of Representatives=

Townsend was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1915, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65257270/veteran-comic-artist-dies/ |title=Veteran Comic Artist Dies |newspaper=Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph |location=New York |agency=AP |page=22 |date=1942-03-17 |access-date=2020-12-13 |via=Newspapers.com}}

After leaving Congress, he served as postmaster of Montclair from 1915 to 1923. Townsend moved to New York City in 1924 and resumed newspaper and literary pursuits, and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

=Death=

He died in New York City on March 15, 1942, and was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, New York.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65257563/edward-w-townsend/ |title=Edward W. Townsend |newspaper=The Spokesman-Review |location=New York |agency=AP |date=1942-03-17 |access-date=2020-12-13 |via=Newspapers.com}}

References

External links

{{Internet Archive author |sname=Edward Waterman Townsend}}
{{Librivox author |id=2472}}
{{CongBio|T000332}}
[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#R9M0JFI5D Edward Waterman Townsend] at The Political Graveyard
[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030005485&view=1up&seq=13&skin=2021 Article on Edward W. Townsend in August-September 1895 edition of The Bookman (New York)]

{{US House succession box

| state=New Jersey

| district=7

| before= Richard W. Parker

| after= Robert G. Bremner

| years=March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1913

}}

{{US House succession box

| state=New Jersey

| district=10

| before= James A. Hamill

| after= Frederick R. Lehlbach