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Antony, Edwin Le Roy

lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1852, near Waynesboro, Ga. He was admitted to practice in the courts of that state Jan. 8, 1874, and at once entered upon the duties of his profession; two years later he was elected county attorney of his county, the first under the constitution of 1876, being also ex-officio district attorney for his county; in 1886, during the illness of the regular district judge, he filled that office as special judge; in 1892, while an alderman of his city, was nominated and elected, June 14, 1892, to the fifty-second congress as a democrat. At the expiration of his term he returned to his home and resumed the practice of his profession, in which he is still engaged. He was, and still is, an ardent supporter and admirer of President Cleveland, and is of the school of politics known as gold standard democrats. In 1876 he was married to Miss Augusta Houghton, a native Texan, and a daughter of Judge Joel A. Houghton, of Georgetown, Tex.