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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North DakotaLADD, Edwin Freemont
(1859—1925)
Senate Years of Service:
1921-1925
Party:
Republican
LADD, Edwin Freemont, 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.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Melby, Alfred. “A Chemist in the Senate: Edwin Fremont Ladd, 1921-1925.” Master’s thesis, University of North Dakota, 1967; U.S. Congress. Senate. Memorial Addresses
. 69th Cong., 2d sess., 1925-1926. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1927.
Holley, Clifford Dyer, and E.F. Ladd. Analysis of Mixed Paints, Color Pigments, and Varnishes
. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1908.
Kane, Ralph James. “Edwin Fremont Ladd, North Dakota’s Pure Food Crusader.” Master’s thesis, University of North Dakota, 1960.
Ladd, E.F. A Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis
. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1898.
Melby, Alfred. “A Chemist in the Senate: Edwin Fremont Ladd, 1921-1925.” Master’s thesis, University of North Dakota, 1967.
Reid, Bill G. “Edwin Freemont Ladd: Scientits as Pure Food Crusader, College Administrator and U.S. Senator.” In Five for the Land and Its People
, pp. 77-101. Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University, 1989.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Edwin F. Ladd. Memorial Addresses Delivered in the United States Senate in Memory of Edwin F. Ladd, Late a Senator from North Dakota
. 69th Cong., 2d sess., 1925-1926. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1927.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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