Edwin Yates Webb

Edwin Yates Webb (May 23, 1872 – February 7, 1955) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina from 1903 to 1919 and a federal judge from 1919 to 1948. Born in Shelby, North Carolina, Webb attended Shelby Military Institute and then Wake Forest College, graduating in 1893. He studied law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was admitted to the bar in 1894, practicing law in his hometown of Shelby. After completing postgraduate work at the University of Virginia Law School, he was named to the Wake Forest College Board of Trustees in 1898 and served a two-year term as a trustee of North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College (now North Carolina State University) from 1899 to 1901. Elected the chair of...