Edward Isaac Golladay

Edward Isaac Golladay was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 5th congressional district of Tennessee. He was born in Lebanon, Tennessee in Wilson County on September 9, 1830. He attended the common schools and graduated from the literary department of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee in 1848, and from Cumberland School of Law in 1849. He was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Lebanon.

He was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1857 and 1858. He was a presidential elector on the Constitutional-Union ticket of Bell and Everett in 1860. He served in the Confederate Army as a colonel during the entire Civil War. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress, serving from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Lebanon and Nashville. He died in Columbia, South Carolina while on a visit to his daughter, on July 11, 1897. He was interred in Cedar Grove Cemetery in Lebanon. His brother, Jacob Golladay, was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.