Ninian Edwards
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Ninian Edwards was an American political figure who was prominent in Illinois. He served as the first and only governor of the Illinois Territory from 1809 to until the territory earned statehood in 1
Edward's Portrait in the Illinois State Capitol's Hall of Governors
Ninian Wirt Edwards
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Ninian Wirt Edwards was an American politician and lawyer. A Whig and later a Democrat, he was a member of the Illinois General Assembly and served as Illinois Attorney General and Illinois State Supe
Ninian Edwards
…future U.S. Attorney General William Wirt. He attended Dickinson College from 1790 to 1792 but did not graduate, leaving college to study law. His son Ninian Wirt Edwards wrote later that Edwards spent some of his time at Dickinson reading medicine, a field to which he devoted considerable time in his later years. In…
Portrait of Edwards by George Peter Alexander Healy