Faisal II of Iraq
After Edge left office on January 21, 1947, he continued to promote constitutional reform, which was achieved later the same year with the adoption of the Constitution of 1947. Edge spent his final years as the elder statesman of the New Jersey Republican party. In 1951, he was one of the first prominent figures to back General Dwight D. Eisenhower for President. In 1953 he attended the coronation of King Faisal II of Iraq as President Eisenhower's representative.