J. Edward Addicks

John Edward Charles OSullivan Addicks was an industrialist and capitalist who used his wealth from financing and building gas works to wage four unsuccessful campaigns for a United States Senate seat in Delaware. His struggle with Henry A. du Pont for control of the state government led to Delaware having both of its Senate seats vacant for a time and was one of the factors which led to election reform and the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913.

Addicks was born November 21, 1841 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John E. C. OSullivan and Margretta McLeod Addicks. He graduated from Philadelphia public schools at ageand entered business, first in wholesale dry goods, then in flour, and later in real estate. Addicks married Laura Butcher in 1864, with whom he had a daughter, Florence. After the death of his first wife, he married her sister Rosalie they subsequently divorced. Addicks moved to Claymont, Delaware in 1877, where he would eventually marry Ida Carr Wilson in 1898.

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