Charles W. Henney

Charles William Francis Henney (* February 2, 1884 in Dunlap, Harrison County, Iowa, † November 16, 1969 in Portage, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Henney attended the public schools of his home in Iowa. Between 1902 and 1905 he worked himself as a teacher in a district school in Crawford County. Then he studied until 1910 at Northwestern University in Chicago medicine. In 1912, Henney moved to Portage in Wisconsin, where he worked as a doctor. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1920 and 1936 he was a delegate at all regional democratic party days in Wisconsin. From 1936 to 1948 he was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, on which President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman later nominated for re-election. Between 1925 and 1933, Henney was a member of the Park Commission of the City Portage. At the same time he was in the years 1926 and 1927, the board of the St. Savior 's Hospital in Portage.

In the congressional elections of 1932 Henney was in the second electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Republican Charles A. Kading on March 4, 1933. Since he has not been confirmed in the elections of 1934, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. This was shortened after the implementation of the 20th Amendment, by two months, because the beginning of the legislative sessions of the Congress has been brought forward to January 3 since 1935.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, Charles Henney withdrew from politics. In the following years he worked again as a doctor. He died on November 16, 1969 in his home in Portage and was also buried there.