Edmond Spencer Blackburn

Edmond Spencer Blackburn

Edmond Spencer Blackburn (September 22, 1868 – July 21, 1912) was a Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1901 and 1903 and 1905 and 1907.

Born near Boone, North Carolina, Blackburn attended common schools and became a lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in 1890 and practiced law in Jefferson, North Carolina. A clerk for the North Carolina Senate in 1894 and 1895, he was elected to the state house in 1896 and 1897, the second year serving as speaker pro tempore.

In 1898, he was named an assistant United States attorney, and two years later, was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives. He ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1902, but was elected to a second non-consecutive term in 1904 in the 59th U.S. Congress.

Declining to run again in 1906, Blackburn returned to his law practice in Greensboro, North Carolina and died in Elizabethtown in 1912; he is buried near his hometown of Boone.

External links

• Edmond Spencer Blackburn at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Romulus Z. Linney	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 8th congressional district 1901–1903	Succeeded by Theodore F. Kluttz
Preceded by Theodore F. Kluttz	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 8th congressional district 1905–1907	Succeeded by Richard N. Hackett