Edwin A. Raymond (April 11, 1861June 20, 1918) was an American businessman and progressive Republican politician from

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. He represented Green Bay in the

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during the 1911–1912 session.

Biography

E. A. Raymond was born in the city of

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, in April 1861. He was educated in public schools, supplemented by private instruction. In Fond du Lac, he worked as a clerk in a book and stationary store for seven years. He then moved to

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, where he worked as a bookkeeper for the Iron River Furnace Company, and was then employed as an engineer for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company for much of the 1880s and 1890s. He resigned from the railroad in 1898 and operated a wholesale produce business, then purchased a farm in 1901 in

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. Finally, in 1906, he moved to

, where he worked in the life insurance and real estate businesses. In 1910, he ran for

, seeking the Republican Party nomination. During this era, the state's politics were largely dominated by the Republican Party, but the party was split between the progressive faction of

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and the stalwart faction. Raymond was a supporter of La Follette, and went on to defeat his stalwart opponent in the

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. At the general election in November, he narrowly prevailed over Democratic and Social Democratic opponents. His district comprised all of Green Bay as well as the northwest quarter of Brown County. During the 50th Wisconsin Legislature, he served on the committees on cities, and on labor and labor conditions. He did not run for re-election in 1912. Raymond died on the morning of June 20, 1918, after suffering from disease for about a month.

Electoral history

Wisconsin Assembly (1910)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Raymond, E. A. 1861 births 1918 deaths Politicians from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Politicians from Green Bay, Wisconsin Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly 20th-century members of the Wisconsin Legislature