Edward Henry Carroll Long

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Edward Henry Carroll Long (September 28, 1808 – October 16, 1865) was an American politician.

Born in Princess Anne, Maryland, Long attended the common schools and graduated from Yale College in 1828. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1830, and commenced practice in Princess Anne. He also engaged in agricultural pursuits.

Long was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1833 to1835, 1839, 1844, and 1861. He served in the Maryland State Senate in 1860, and was elected from the sixth district of Maryland as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress, and served from March 4, 1845, to March 3, 1847. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1846, and resumed the practice of his profession and also engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1860, and died in Princess Anne. He was interred in the family burying ground on his farm, Catalpa, near Princess Anne.

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• Edward Henry Carroll Long at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Preceded by Thomas Ara Spence

Representative of the 6th Congressional District of Maryland 1845—1847

Succeeded by John Woodland Crisfield