Henry D. McHenry

Henry Davis McHenry ( born February 27, 1826 in Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, † December 17, 1890 ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1873 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry McHenry was a son of John H. McHenry (1797-1871), who was also of 1845-1847 the state of Kentucky in Congress. The younger McHenry attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree from Transylvania University in Lexington, and his 1845 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Hartford in this profession. Politically McHenry was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1851-1853 and again 1865-1867 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the years 1861-1865 he was a member of the State Senate. Since 1872 until his death he was a member of the Democratic National Committee.

In the congressional elections of 1870 he was in the second electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William N. Sweeney on March 4, 1871. By March 3, 1871 McHenry completed a term in Congress. He then practiced as a lawyer back in Hartford. In 1890 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Kentucky. Henry McHenry died on 17 December 1890 in Hartford, where he was also buried.

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