Webster, Edwin H
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born March 31, 1829, in Hartford county, Md. He was a member of the Maryland senate from 1855 to 1859, serving two years as the president of that body. In 1856 he was chosen a presidential elector. He was a representative from Maryland to the thirtysixth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. For a time he rendered the state some service in a military capacity, and was colonel of a Maryland regiment. In 1863 he was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress. In 1865 he was appointed collector of customs for the port of Baltimore.