Английская Википедия:Edgar Snowden Jr.

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Шаблон:Short description 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]

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