Henry B. Cowles

Henry Booth Cowles ( born March 18, 1798 in Hartford, Connecticut, † May 17, 1873 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1829 and 1831 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Booth Cowles was born in the late 18th century in Hartford. His family moved in 1809 to the Dutchess County. He graduated in 1816 from Union College in Schenectady. Cowles studied law and began after receiving his license to practice law in Putnam County to practice. Between 1826 and 1828, he sat in the New York State Assembly. Politically, Cowles in the anti- Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1828 he was in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Aaron Ward on March 4, 1829. He retired after March 3, 1831 from the Congress. In 1834 he moved to New York City, where he practiced law until his death on 17 May 1873. His body was interred at the cemetery in Rhinebeck.