Edmund Waggoner Sehon served as Huntington mayor from 1915 to 1918.
Sehon was born in Mason County in 1843, when that county was still part of Virginia. He earned a law degree in Pennsylvania and practiced law in Greenbrier and Mercer counties in West Virginia from 1866 to 1870. He then moved to Mason County, making his home in Point Pleasant.
In 1890, Sehon moved to Huntington and established the major wholesale grocery firm that ultimately became Sehon, Stevenson & Company.
In politics, he was a Democrat and had the rare distinction of serving two terms in the West Virginia House of Delegates that were exactly 50 years apart. He was first elected from Mason County in 1874. Fifty years later, in 1924, he was again elected, this time from Cabell County. He died the following year at age 81.
