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Senate Years of Service: 1921-1925 Party: Republican
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LADD, Edwin Fremont, a Senator from North Dakota; born in Starks, Somerset County, Maine,
December 13, 1859; attended the public schools and Somerset Academy, Athens,
Maine, and graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1884; chemist of
the New York State Experiment Station, Geneva, N.Y., 1884-1890; dean of the
school of chemistry and pharmacy and professor of chemistry at the North Dakota
Agricultural College, Fargo, N.Dak.; chief chemist of the North Dakota
Agricultural Experiment Station 1890-1916; editor of the North Dakota Farmer at
Lisbon 1899-1904; administrator of the State pure-food laws, for which he
actively crusaded 1902-1921; president of the North Dakota Agricultural College
1916-1921; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1920 and
served from March 4, 1921, until his death in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, Md., June 22, 1925; chairman, Committee on Public Roads and Surveys
(Sixty-eighth Congress); interment in Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Melby, Alfred. A Chemist in
the Senate: Edwin Fremont Ladd, 1921-1925. Masters thesis, University of
North Dakota, 1967; U.S. Congress. Senate.
Memorial Addresses. 69th Cong., 2d sess., 1925-1926.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1927.
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