Edward F. McDonald

Edward Francis McDonald was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jerseys 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1891 to 1892.

McDonald was born in Ireland on September 21, 1844, and immigrated to the United States when six years of age with his parents, who settled in Newark, New Jersey and attended the Newark Public Schools. During the Civil War, he enlisted in Company I, Seventh Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, in 1861, and was honorably discharged in 1862. He learned the machinist trade and became a skilled mechanic. He moved to Harrison, New Jersey in 1874. He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1874, and director at large of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hudson County in 1877, and was reelected in 1879 and served four years. He presented credentials as a memberelect to the New Jersey Senate in 1890 and served throughout the session until the last day, when he was unseated, but was restored to the seat in the following session. He was interested in real estate business. He served as treasurer of Harrison in 1881.

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