Henry Bristow

Henry Bristow ( born June 5, 1840, São Miguel, Azores, † October 11, 1906 in Brooklyn, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1903 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

The Bristow family immigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn. Henry Bristow attended public and private schools. After the outbreak of the Civil War he undertook on April 26, 1861, private in Company B of the Seventh Regiment of the Militia of New York, but was decommissioned again on 3 June 1861. He went to 1896 commercial transactions. Then he was appointed magistrate in Brooklyn. Between 1880 and 1889 he was a member of the Education Committee of Brooklyn.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1900, he was the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edmund H. Driggs on March 4, 1901. He suffered in his re-election bid in 1902, a defeat and retired after March 3, 1903 from the Congress of.

The following year he was appointed Public Administrator of Brooklyn, a position which he held there until his death on 11 October 1906. His body was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery.