Zedekiah Kidwell

Zedekiah Kidwell

Zedekiah Kidwell (January 4, 1814 – April 27, 1872) was a nineteenth century politician, physician, lawyer, teacher and clerk from Virginia and West Virginia.

Born in Fairfax, Virginia, Kidwell received an English education and studied medicine. He moved to Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) with his father in 1834 where he taught school and clerked in a store. He resumed studying medicine and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1839, commencing practice in Fairfax County, Virginia. Kidwell moved to Fairmont, Virginia (now West Virginia) and served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1842 to 1845, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1849, leaving his medical practice the same year. He was a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1849 and served in the House of Delegates again in 1849, 1850 and 1852. Kidwell was elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1852, serving 1853 to 1857 and afterward resumed practicing medicine. He was a member of the Virginia Board of Public Works from 1857 to 1860 before his death in Fairmont, West Virginia on April 27, 1872. Kidwell was interned their in Fairmont Cemetery.

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