Web, E. Y. (Edwin Yates), 1872-1955

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Edwin Yates Webb (23 May 1872-7 February 1955) of Shelby, N.C., graduated from Wake Forest College in 1893. He took a law degree from the University of North Carolina in 1894 and passed the bar examination in 1896. He then studied constitutional law at the University of Virginia. In 1898, Webb was chair of the Cleveland County, N.C., Democratic Executive Committee. From 1900 until 1902, he was a state senator from Cleveland County. Webb served as a Democratic member of the United States Congress from March 1903 until November 1919, when President Woodrow Wilson appointed him district judge of the Western District of North Carolina. He served as district judge until 1 March 1948.

Webb's parents were Reverend George M. Webb, a Baptist minister, and Priscilla Jane Blanton Webb. His first wife was Willie Simmons of Wake Forest, N.C., with whom he had three children: Elizabeth Y., Edwin Y., and William Y. Willie Simmons Webb died in 1923. In 1928, Webb married Alice Pender Taylor of Tarboro, N.C. She had two children from a previous marriage.

From the guide to the E. Y. Webb Papers (#3482), 1901-1955, (Southern Historical Collection)

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