Edward Weston Carpender (c. 1796 – May 16, 1877) was a United States Navy officer who served in three wars.
[3] From 1829 to 1830 he served as an officer aboard the sloop-of-war USS Falmouth of the West India Squadron.
[4] In October 1848, while in command of the steamship USS Iris, in rescuing a French ship, the barque L'Eugènie which had struck a bank and become stranded off the anchorage of Antón Lizardo, his initial detention of the ship and crew developed into a diplomatic incident that ultimately involved United States Secretary of State John M. Clayton and French Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexis de Tocqueville.
[3][2] Carpender retired to Shrewsbury Township, New Jersey,[3] where he died on May 16, 1877, at the home of his brother-in-law, Col. E. T.
[7][1] His age at death was reported by the local New Jersey and Philadelphia newspapers to be 81, placing his birth at ca.