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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaCABELL, Edward Carrington
(1816—1896)
CABELL, Edward Carrington, a Representative from Florida; born in Richmond, Va., February 5, 1816; attended Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., in 1832 and 1833 and Reynolds’ Classical Academy in 1833 and 1834; was graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1836; moved to Florida in 1837 and engaged in agricultural pursuits near Tallahassee; delegate to the Territorial convention to form a State constitution in 1838; returned to Virginia; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1840; returned to Tallahassee, Fla.; upon the admission of Florida as a State into the Union presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Twenty-ninth Congress and served from October 6, 1845, to January 24, 1846, when he was succeeded by William H. Brockenbrough, who contested the election; elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Thirtieth-Congress); unsuccessful candidate in 1852 for reelection to the Thirty-third Congress; resumed the practice of law in Tallahassee; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1859; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army with rank of lieutenant colonel; engaged in the practice of law in New York City 1868-1872, and subsequently in St. Louis, Mo.; member of the State senate of Missouri 1878-1882; died in St. Louis, Mo., February 28, 1896; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Cabell, Edward Carrington. Address of E. C. Cabell
. [Washington: N.p., 1850].
———. The slave question. Speech of Hon. E. C. Cabell, of Florida, in the House of Representatives, March 5, 1850, in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the President’s message, communicating the constitution of California
. [Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe
Office, 1850].
[Letter to Dr. G. D. Fisher
. Washington: N.p., 1850].
Marks, Henry S. “Proceedings of the First Florida Congressional Delegation.” Florida Historical Quarterly
44 (January 1966): 205-11.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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