Isaac H. Edgett
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Isaac H. Edgett was an American
United States
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 civil servant and politician who served as the acting Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Early life

Edgett was born in Hillsborough, New Brunswick
Hillsborough, New Brunswick
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 on March 13, 1838 to Handyside P. and Ruth Edgett. Edgett married Elizabeth Boden Fiske, b. April 19, 1841.

Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth

Edgett, worked as the First Deputy to Secretary of the Commonwealth's office for thirty seven years, retiring in 1913. As the First Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth Edgett became the acting Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
The Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth is the principal public information officer of the state government of the U.S...

 upon the death of William M. Olin
William M. Olin
William Milo Olin was an American journalist and politician who served as the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. Olin was born in Warrenton, Georgia to parents from Massachusetts, and in 1850 his family moved back to Massachusetts, where he attended school in Worcester and Grafton...

. Edgett served as the acting Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
The Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth is the principal public information officer of the state government of the U.S...

  until Albert P. Langtry
Albert P. Langtry
Albert Perkins Langtry was an American newspaper editor and publisher, politician, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, and a member of the Republican Party.- Biography :...

 was elected by the Massachusetts legislature
Massachusetts General Court
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 to serve out the remainder of Olin's
William M. Olin
William Milo Olin was an American journalist and politician who served as the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. Olin was born in Warrenton, Georgia to parents from Massachusetts, and in 1850 his family moved back to Massachusetts, where he attended school in Worcester and Grafton...

 term.

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