Edwin Fremont Ladd (December 13, 1859June 22, 1925) was an American chemist, academic administrator, and politician. While serving in the
United States Senate
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, he was chairman of the Committee on Public Roads and Surveys during the
68th Congress.
Biography
He was born in
Starks, Maine on December 13, 1859. He attended the public schools and Somerset Academy (
Athens, Maine) and graduated from the
University of Maine
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at
Orono in 1884. He was a chemist of the New York State Experiment Station in
Geneva, New York
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from 1884 to 1890 and dean of the school of chemistry and pharmacy and professor of chemistry at the
North Dakota Agricultural College,
Fargo, North Dakota
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. He was chief chemist of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station from 1890 to 1916 and editor of the ''North Dakota Farmer'' at
Lisbon
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from 1899 to 1904. He was administrator of the State's pure-food laws, for which he actively crusaded from 1902 to 1921; he was also president of the North Dakota Agricultural College from 1916 to 1921.
Ladd was elected as a
Republican to the U.S. Senate in 1920 and served from March 4, 1921. He died at
Johns Hopkins Hospital
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in
Baltimore, Maryland
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on June 22, 1925. Interment was in
Glenwood Cemetery,
Washington, D.C.
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See also
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1920 United States Senate election in North Dakota
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1859 births
1925 deaths
People from Somerset County, Maine
American people of English descent
Republican Party United States senators from North Dakota
North Dakota Republicans
Chemists from Maine
University of Maine alumni
Presidents of North Dakota State University
Burials at Glenwood Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
19th-century American chemists
American university and college faculty deans
Chemists from North Carolina
20th-century United States senators