Ninian Edwards
3rd Governor of Illinois
In office December 6, 1826 – December 6, 1830
Lieutenant(s)	William Kinney
Preceded by	Edward Coles
Succeeded by	John Reynolds
Born	March 17 1775(1775--) Montgomery County, Maryland
Died	July 20 1833 (aged 58) Belleville, Illinois
Political party	Democratic-Republican

Ninian Edwards (March 17, 1775 – July 20, 1833) was a U.S. political figure.

Born in 1775 in Montgomery County, Maryland, Edwards served as the only governor of Illinois Territory between 1809 and 1818 and again as governor of Illinois (as a state) from 1826 until 1830. He served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1818 to 1824.

Upon his death from cholera in 1833 in Belleville, Illinois, Edwards was interred in Oak Ridge Cemetery.^[1]

Trivia

• His son also named Ninian Edwards was married to a sister of Mary Todd Lincoln. Their daughter Julia Cook Edwards married Edward Lewis Baker editor of the "Illinois State Journal" and son of Congressman David Jewett Baker.
• His son-in-law, Daniel Pope Cook, was a U.S. Congressman, and his grandson John Cook was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
• Edwards County, Illinois was named for him.

Sources

• The Political Graveyard

References

1. ^ [1]

External links

• Biographical Directory of Congress Entry

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