Background
Edward Lander was born in Salem, Massachussets, the eldest son of Edward and Eliza (West) Lander. His brother, Frederick W. Lander, was a soldier and engineer. His sister, Louisa Lander, was a sculptress.
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Edward Lander was born in Salem, Massachussets, the eldest son of Edward and Eliza (West) Lander. His brother, Frederick W. Lander, was a soldier and engineer. His sister, Louisa Lander, was a sculptress.
He was graduated from Harvard in 1835, took the degree of M. A. in 1838, and that of LL. B. in 1839.
After practising in his own state, Lander emigrated in 1841 to Indianapolis, Ind. , where he became district attorney for several counties. During the Mexican War, he became captain of the 4th Indiana Volunteers but did not see active fighting. Soon after his return to civil life, he received an ad interim appointment and was subsequently elected judge of the court of common pleas.
His next public office, to which he was appointed by President Pierce in 1853, was that of justice of the supreme court of Washington Territory. During the Indian wars of 1856-58, Lander was made captain of Company A of volunteers but became involved in a legal, rather than military, combat.
The territorial authorities accused some settlers, former employees of the Hudson's Bay Company, of affording aid and comfort to the enemy, and therefore ordered them to Fort Steilacoom for surveillance. Local attorneys prepared writs of habeas corpus which were to be laid before the district court of Pierce County, Lander presiding for his colleague, Judge Chenoweth, who was ill. To forestall the release of the suspects, Gov. Isaac Ingalls Stevens, on April 3, 1856, proclaimed martial law in Pierce County and ordered Lander's arrest when the latter attempted to hold court. Later, the judge tried to bring Stevens before his own bench, in Olympia, Thurston County, on charges of contempt. The federal marshal and posse failed in the attempt to arrest Stevens who had now proclaimed martial law in Thurston County and had ordered Lander rearrested. The alleged emergency had passed before Judge Chenoweth secured the release of his colleague, who thereupon fined the executive, represented by attorney, the nominal sum of fifty dollars, merely to vindicate the supremacy of civil law. The national administration upheld the judge's position on the mooted question of martial law.
Lander declined renomination for his position in 1858. As independent candidate for territorial delegate in 1861, he was defeated by a substantial majority. After receiving an injury which invalided him for the remainder of his life, he made his residence at Washington, D. C. , where he represented Hudson's Bay Company and its subsidiary, the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, also the claimants in the French spoliation claims. He died at Washington.
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Lander was married but had no children.