US Congressman, Entrepreneur. He was a United States Representative from the State of Michigan. He was born one of four children as Edward Samuel Lacey to Edward DeWitt Lacey (1809-1864), and his wife Martha Cornelia Pixley Lacey (1814-1878), in Chili Center, New York, on November 26, 1835. He later moved with his parents and siblings to Branch County, Michigan, and to Eaton County, Michigan, in March of 1843. He was educated locally and attended the common public schools and the prestigious Olivet College, a private Christian liberal arts college located in Olivet, Michigan. Following his education, he engaged in various business pursuits and in banking interests. He then relocated to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he lived from 1853 to 1857, before moving to Charlotte, Michigan, where he became interested in local public office and politics and served as the Register of Deeds of Eaton County, Michigan, from 1860 to 1864, and as the Mayor of Charlotte, Michigan, in 1871. He also served as a Delegate to the Republican National Convention as an Alternate Delegate in 1872, and again in 1876, and as a Trustee of the Michigan Asylum for the Insane from 1874 to 1880. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Jonas Hartzell McGowan (1837-1909), on March 4, 1881. A Member of the Republican Party, he then served Michigan's 3rd District (Forty-Seventh Congress and Forty-Eighth Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1885. He declined to be a Candidate for re-election in 1884. Following his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative James O'Donnell (1840-1915), on March 4, 1885. During his time in the United States Congress, he also served as the Chairman of the Michigan Republic Party from 1882 to 1884. After leaving the United States Congress, he resumed his various business pursuits and banking interests for a time. He was then commissioned by then-President of the United States Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), to the post of the 7th Comptroller of the Currency on April 17, 1889. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then replaced the outgoing 6th United States Comptroller of the Currency William L. Trenholme (1836-1901), on May 1, 1889. He served in that post from May 1, 1889, until his resignation from office on June 30, 1892. Following his term, he was succeeded in office by the incoming 8th United States Comptroller of the Currency Alonzo Barton Hepburn (1846-1922), on August 2, 1892. Following his resignation, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he again resumed his various business pursuits and banking interests including serving as Chairman of the Continental and Commercial Bank, in Evanston, Illinois, until his death. He passed away at his home following a short illness of only a few days in Evanston, Illinois, on October 2, 1916, at the age of 80. Following his death, his funeral service was officiated by the Reverend William T. McElveen, the Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Evanston, Illinois, and he was then buried in Maple Hill Cemetery in Charlotte, Michigan. He was married to Annetta Clementine Musgrave Lacey (1841-1926), in Chicago, Illinois, on January 1, 1861, and they had four children together, Lizzie Louise Lacey Judd (1861-1889), Jessie Pixley Lacey (1863-1957), Edith Musgrave Lacey (1865-1954), and Edward Musgrave Lacey (1881-1910). His wife Annetta survived him and she passed away in Augusta, Georgia, on April 4, 1926, at the age of 84, and she was buried in the Family Plot in Maple Hill Cemetery in Charlotte, Michigan.