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Edward Francis Blewitt (January 2, 1859 – May 26, 1926) was an American civil engineer, businessman, and politician who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 22nd district from 1907 to 1910.
Jan 13, 2021 · Biography. Edward Francis Blewitt (January 2, 1859 – May 26, 1926) was an American civil engineer, businessman, and politician who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 22nd district from 1907 to 1910. He is the maternal great-grandfather of Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the United States.
- January 2, 1859
- May 26, 1926
Edward Francis Blewitt was an American civil engineer, businessman, and politician who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 22nd district from 1907 to 1910.
- New Orleans, LA
- Mary Ellen Blewitt, Mary Ann Blewitt
- LA
- January 2, 1859
Edward Francis Blewitt, born January 2, 1859, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana; son of Patrick and Catherine Scanlon Blewitt, Lafayette College, B.S., civil engineering, 1879; engaged, engineering, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania mining operations; married, Mary Ellen Stanton, 1879, (d.1887) children, Gertrude, Patrick, Arthur, and Geraldine ...
Joe's matrilineal great-grandfather (Geraldine's father), Edward Francis Blewitt, the child of Irish emigrants from Rappagh, Ballina, County Mayo, was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate. [81] [82] With all Joe Biden's maternal ancestors, and his paternal great-grandmother Mary Ann Hanafee, having purely Irish origins, this makes Joe ...
Edward F. Blewitt (1859 – 1926) the first Irish Catholic to serve in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, was a maternal great-grandfather of Joe Biden (46th President of the US). In 1848, his father Patrick P. Blewitt (1832-1911) left Ballina, Co. Mayo for the US with his family.
Feb 18, 2021 · President Biden’s maternal great-grandfather Edward Francis Blewitt, the son of Irish immigrants, was a founding member of the Scranton / Lackawanna County, branch of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in Lackawanna County.
