[1] Appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edwards served in multiple roles as solicitor and counsel in the United States Department of the Interior.
He was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, alongside future Governor Earle Clements.
[3] After starting out as an attorney in Cynthiana, Kentucky, Edwards rose to the position of chief counsel of the Office of Territories at the United States Department of the Interior.
[2] In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Edwards to a presidential commission created by the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands, establishing American law in the Virgin Islands.
He retired in 1972, but continued to serve on the board of a group advocating for building more low-income housing.