Henry G. Danforth

Henry Gold Danforth ( born June 14, 1854 in Rochester, New York, † April 8, 1918 ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1917 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Danforth was born in Gates, which is a suburb of Rochester today. He attended the common schools and then the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter (New Hampshire). By 1880, he studied under law at Harvard University. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar he began working in Rochester in this profession. Since 1889 until his death he was a director at the Rochester General Hospital. In the years 1900 to 1902 he was a board member of the New York State Reformatory in Elmira; 1906 to 1918, he served as curator of the Reynolds Library.

Politically, Danforth joined the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1910, he was the 32nd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat James S. Havens on March 4, 1911. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1917 three legislative periods. Since 1913 he represented there, the then newly created 39th district of his state. In 1913 were the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified. It was about the nationwide introduction of the income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators.

In 1916, Henry Danforth has not been nominated by his party for re-election. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on April 8, 1918 in Rochester, where he was also buried.