Edgar Snowden Jr. was an American 19th-century newspaper editor and state legislator in Virginia.[1] He served in the Virginia Senate representing Alexandria, Fairfax and Loudoun Counties along with Thomas E. Taylor.[2]

He worked at his father Edgar's Alexandria Gazette newspaper.[3] He was an organizing officer of the Manassas Gap Railroad.[4] He served as an assistant postmaster.[5][6]

The Union Army used him and others as human shields on rail lines.[7] His paper was pressured by Union authorities not to recognize the legislature in Richmond.[8] Snowden was succeeded in the legislature by Henry Wirtz Thomas.

He was involved with the Alexandria Library Company.[9] Carrol H. Quenzel wrote a biographical sketch about him.[10][11]

References

  1. ↑ Senate, Virginia General Assembly (November 16, 1870). "Journal of the Senate of Virginia". Commonwealth of Virginia – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Virginia (November 16, 1918). "Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia" – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Cronin, Mary M. (March 9, 2016). An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America. SIU Press. ISBN 9780809334735 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Virginia (November 16, 1855). "Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia" – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ House, United States Congress (November 16, 1877). "Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session" – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ Congress, United States (November 16, 1876). "Congressional Directory". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Mills, Charles A.; Mills, Andrew L. (November 16, 2008). Alexandria, 1861-1865. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738553443 – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ "The Record of News, History and Literature". West & Johnston. November 16, 1863 – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ Seale, William (2007). The Alexandria Library Company. ISBN 9780979272004.
  10. ↑ "The Publishers Weekly".
  11. ↑ "Quenzel, Carrol H. 1906-1968 (Carrol Hunter) [WorldCat Identities]".
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