Henry F. Hollis

Henry French Hollis ( born August 30, 1869 in Concord, New Hampshire; † July 7, 1949 in Paris, France ) was a U.S. Representative (Democratic Party), who represented the state of New Hampshire in the U.S. Senate.

Life

Henry Hollis attended public schools, but also received private lessons. From 1886 to 1887 he was employed as an engineer for the railroad company Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. In 1892 he graduated from Harvard University; after which he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice as a lawyer in Concord.

His first candidates for political office were unsuccessful. In 1900, Hollis ran for a seat in the House of Representatives of the United States, but lost just as much as two years later, in the election for governor of New Hampshire, when he lost to Republican residue Nahum J. Bachelder with ten percentage points. In 1904 he joined again as the democratic candidate for governor, said he suffered an even greater defeat with almost 18 percentage points difference from the victorious Republican John McLane.

It was not until the election to the U.S. Senate could successfully challenge Hollis. With 50.9 percent of the vote he won against the later Republican Governor John H. Bartlett, whereupon he took his seat in Washington on March 13, 1913. Since he resigned in 1918 to run again, Hollis resigned from the Congress on March 3, 1919. During his time as a senator, he was, inter alia Committee on Enrolled Bills.

From 1914 to 1919 Hollis was a member of the governing body ( Board of Regents ) of the Smithsonian Institution. He also represented at the 1918 American interests in Interallied War Finance Council. Other tasks in finance, he became a member of the United States Liquidation Commission for England and France as well as staff of the International Bank of Bulgaria from 1922. He died in 1949 during a stay in Paris and was buried in his hometown of Concord.