Ninian Edwards

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American politician human

Ninian Edwards was an early American politician who served as the territorial governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator and the third governor of the state.

Aliases (1)

Ninian ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American politician → human →
appointedBy	James Madison →
birthDate	1775-03-17 →
burialPlace	Bellefontaine Cemetery →
causeOfDeath	cholera →
child	Benjamin Stephenson Edwards → Ninian Wirt Edwards NERFINISHED →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
deathDate	1833-07-20 →
educatedAt	College of New Jersey → Dickinson College → Washington and Lee University → Winchester Law School →
endTime	1818-12-03 →
ethnicGroup	Welsh Americans →
familyName	Edwards →
givenName	Ninian →
memberOfPoliticalParty	Democratic-Republican Party → National Republican Party →
namesake	Edwards County, Illinois → Edwards County, Kentucky NERFINISHED → Edwardsville, Illinois →
nativeLanguage	English →
notableWork	leadership in early governance of Illinois Territory →
occupation	lawyer → politician →
officeEndTime (Governor of Illinois)	1830-12-06 →
officeEndTime (U.S. Senator from Illinois)	1824-03-04 →
officeStartTime (Governor of Illinois)	1826-12-06 →
officeStartTime (U.S. Senator from Illinois)	1818-12-03 →
ordinalInOffice	3rd Governor of Illinois →
participatedIn	War of 1812 (as territorial leader) →
placeOfBirth	Montgomery County, Maryland NERFINISHED →
placeOfDeath	Belleville, Illinois NERFINISHED →
positionHeld	Governor of Illinois → Governor of Illinois Territory → United States Senator from Illinois →
practicedLawIn	Illinois Territory → Kentucky →
religion	Presbyterianism →
represented	Illinois →
residence	Belleville, Illinois NERFINISHED → Kaskaskia, Illinois Territory →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Elvira Lane →
startTime	1809-06-01 →
studied	law →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ninian Edwards ("Ninian") →	givenName
Edwards →	hasNotableBearer
Oak Ridge Cemetery →	hasNotableBurial