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"Around the Capital" (detail), engraving, Thomas Fleming, 1902, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives
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POU, Edward William, (cousin of James Paul Buchanan),
a Representative from North Carolina; born in Tuskegee, Macon County, Ala.,
September 9, 1863; moved to North Carolina with his parents, who settled in Smithfield in 1867;
received private instructions and attended the common schools and the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and practiced in Smithfield, Johnston
County, N.C.; chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Johnston County in 1886; solicitor
of the fourth judicial district of North Carolina 1890-1901; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1896
to the Fifty-fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and to the sixteen succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1901, until his death; chairman, Committee on Claims
(Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Rules (Sixty-fifth,
Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses); delegate to the Democratic National Convention in
1916; died in Washington, D.C., April 1, 1934; funeral services were held in the Chamber of the
United States House of Representatives; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Smithfield, N.C.
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