Edwin Fremont Ladd was a United States Senator from North Dakota

North Dakota

North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....

. Born in Starks, Maine

Starks, Maine

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, he attended the public schools and Somerset Academy (Athens, Maine

Athens, Maine

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) and graduated from the University of Maine

University of Maine

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 at Orono

Orono, Maine

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 in 1884. He was a chemist of the New York State Experiment Station in Geneva, New York

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

Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Cass County. In 2010, its population was 105,549, and it had an estimated metropolitan population of 208,777...

. He was chief chemist of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station from 1890 to 1916 and editor of the North Dakota Farmer at Lisbon

Lisbon, North Dakota

As of the census of 2000, there were 2,292 people, 948 households, and 571 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,019.7 people per square mile . There were 1,017 housing units at an average density of 452.4 per square mile...

 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

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 to the U.S. Senate in 1920 and served from March 4, 1921, until his death in Johns Hopkins Hospital

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 (Baltimore, Maryland) in 1925. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Public Roads and Surveys (Sixty-eighth Congress). Interment was in Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

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