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Edward Ball, American congressman, lawyer member Ohio House

Background

Ball, Edward was born on November 6, 1811 in near Falls Church, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

Education

Born in Fairfax County, Virginia, near Falls Church, Ball attended the village school.

Career

He moved to Ohio and located near Zanesville, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. He served as deputy sheriff of Muskingum County in 1837 and 1838 and sheriff from 1839 to 1843. Ball was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1857).

In Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-fourth Congress).

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1856. After his tenure in Congress, Ball studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1860, and commenced practice in Zanesville.

He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1860, and as Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives in the Thirty-seventh Congress from 1861 to 1863. He was accidentally killed by a railroad train near Zanesville, Ohio, on November 22, 1872.

He is interred in Greenwood Cemetery.

Achievements

  • Edward Ball has been listed as a reputable congressman, lawyer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

He served as member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1845 to 1849, and became editor of the Zanesville Courier in 1849. He resumed the practice of law, and was again a member of the State house of representatives from 1868 to 1870.