Background
Wade, Edward was born on November 22, 1802 in West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
United States representative lawyer politician
Wade, Edward was born on November 22, 1802 in West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
He moved to Andover, Ohio, in 1821, where he studied law.
Born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, Wade received a limited schooling. He was admitted to the bar in 1827 and commenced practice in Jefferson, Ohio. He was served as Justice of the Peace of Ashtabula County in 1831.
He moved to Unionville in 1832.
He served as prosecuting attorney of Ashtabula County 1833. He moved to Cleveland in 1837.
Wade was elected as a Free-Soil candidate to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1861). In January 1854, he was one of six signatories of the "Appeal of the Independent Democrats", drafted to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Acting.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1860.
He died in East Cleveland, Ohio, August 13, 1866. He was interred in Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
Member United States House