Edward Randolph Harden (1815 – June 12, 1884) was a judicial appointee in 1854 for the Territorial Nebraska Supreme Court, serving in that capacity until 1860.[1][2]
Born in Savannah, Georgia,[3] Harden was a railroad station agent at the time of his appointment to the Nebraska court.[2] He was a delegate from Georgia to the 1860 Democratic National Convention, and fought for the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War,[2] achieving the rank of colonel. Following the war, he served as a county court judge in Georgia from 1872 until his death in 1884.
References
edit- ^ "Edward R. Harden". History Nebraska. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
- ^ a b c ""The Climate is Awful Cold": Judge Edward Harden in Nebraska Territory". History Nebraska. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
- ^ "Seventy Years Of Judicial History Made By Nebraska Judges", The Nebraska State Journal (October 26, 1924), p. 26.
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