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Edgecomb, Willard W

diplomat.

He was a citizen of Maine, and while holding the position of consul at Cape Town, Africa, was empowered to negotiate a treaty of friendship and commerce with the Orange Free State, in 1871.

EDGERTON, A. J., soldier, jurist, United States senator, was born June 7, 1827, in Rome, N. Y. He graduated from the Wesleyan university of Ohio. During the civil war he served nearly five years in the union army; and was promoted to colonel and brevetted brigadier-general of the United States volunteers. He was senator from Minnesota in 1881; chief justice of Dakota; president of the constitutional convention, which adopted the constitution of South Dakota; was United States district judge of South Dakota; and became chief justice. He died in 1896.