Waddill, Edmund
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born May 22, 1855, in Charles City county, Va.
In 1880 he was elected by the legislature of Virginia judge of the county court of Henrico, and resigned this office in 1883 to accept the office of United States attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, which position he filled till 1885. He was elected in the latter year to the legislature, in which body he served till he resigned to take his seat in the fifty-first congress.
He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.