Alonzo J. Edgerton

Infobox Senator
name=Alonzo Jay Edgerton


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jr/sr and state=U.S. Senator from Minnesota
party=Republican
term=March 12, 1881 to October 30, 1881
preceded=William Windom
succeeded=William Windom
date of birth=birth date|1827|6|7|mf=y
place of birth=
date of death=death date and age|1896|8|9|1827|6|7|mf=y
place of death=Sioux Falls, South Dakota
spouse=
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Alonzo Jay Edgerton (June 7, 1827 – August 9, 1896) was an American politician, who graduated from Wesleyan University in 1850, and there became a member of the Mystical Seven. He was appointed U.S. Senator from Minnesota as a Republican, and served from March 12, 1881 to October 30, 1881 in the 47th congress. He was later appointed chief justice of the Territorial Supreme Court of Dakota. When South Dakota was admitted as a State into the Union, he was made United States judge of that district. He also served as president of the constitutional convention of South Dakota. He died in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.