Henry Chapman (American politician)

Henry Chapman ( born February 4, 1804 in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, † April 11, 1891 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1859 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Chapman attended the Doylestown Academy and the Doctor Gummere 's Private Boys' School near Burlington, New Jersey. After a subsequent study of law and its 1825 made ​​admission to the bar he began in Doylestown to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1843 he sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania. From 1845 to 1849 he acted as a judge in the 15th Judicial District of the State of.

In the congressional elections of 1856 Chapman was in the seventh election district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Carey Bradshaw on March 4, 1857. Since he resigned in 1858 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1859. This was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War.

Between 1861 and 1871 Henry Chapman officiated as a judge in Bucks County. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on 11 April 1891 on a property Frosterley near Doylestown.