Edwin Hanson Webster

Edwin Hanson Webster was a U.S. congressman from Maryland, serving the second district for two terms from 1859 until 1865. Prior to the American Civil War, Webster was a lawyer and Maryland state senator from 1855 to 1859. In the summer of 1862, he recruited the 7th Maryland Infantry Regiment and served as colonel until he returned to Congress on January 1, 1863. He resumed command of the regiment from March 4, 1863 and resigned his commission in September to return to Congress. In 1864, he drafted a military code for the Maryland state militia. After July 1865, he was twice a collector of customs at Baltimore, a lawyer in private practice and president of the Harford National Bank in Harford County, Maryland.