Barclay Henley

Barclay Henley ( born March 17, 1843 in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana, † February 15, 1914 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Barclay Henley was the son of Congressman Thomas J. Henley (1808-1875) from Indiana. In 1853 he came with his parents to San Francisco. In 1858 he returned to Indiana. He attended the public schools of his respective home and the Hanover College. In 1861 he returned to San Francisco. After a subsequent law degree in 1864 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Santa Rosa to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1869 and 1870 Henley sat as a deputy in the California State Assembly; 1875 to 1876 he was district attorney in Sonoma County.

In the congressional elections of 1882 Henley was in the third electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1883. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1887 two legislative sessions. Since 1885 he represented as the successor to William Starke Rosecrans the first district of his state. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Barclay Henley practiced in San Francisco as a lawyer. Here he is on February 15, 1914 passed away.