John Flournoy Henry

John Flournoy Henry ( born January 17, 1793 in Henry Mill, Scott County, Kentucky, † November 12, 1873 in Burlington, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1826 and 1827 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Henry attended the Georgetown Academy and the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. In 1817 he finished his medical studies at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. During the British - American War, he was in 1813 in Fort Meigs in the medical service of coming from Kentucky troops operate. Later, Henry practiced as a doctor and worked in agriculture. At the same time he began a political career.

In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party, which merged in the 1830s in the Whig party. After the death of Mr Robert Pryor Henry, with whom he was apparently not related, John Henry was at the due election for the twelfth seat of Kentucky as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 11, 1826. Since he has not been confirmed at the following regular congressional elections, he could finish only the opened term of his predecessor in Congress until March 3, 1827.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives sat Henry his medical career continued. In 1831 he became a professor at the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati. In 1834 he moved to Bloomington, Illinois, and in 1845 to Burlington in Iowa. In his new home, he worked as a physician. He died on November 12, 1873 at the age of 80 years in Burlington.