Henry Joel Scudder

Henry Joel Scudder (* September 18, 1825 in Northport, New York, † February 10, 1886 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Joel Scudder was born about ten and a half years after the end of the British - American War in North Port. He attended the district schools and the Huntington Academy. In 1846 he graduated from Trinity College in Hartford (Connecticut). He studied law and began after the receipt of his admission to practice as a solicitor City 1848 in New York. In 1862 he appeared as Captain in the 37th Regiment of the National Guard of New York, and served there until the end of the Civil War. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1872 Scudder was the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Dwight Townsend on March 4, 1873. Since he resigned in 1874 to run again, he retired after March 3, 1875 from the Congress. Then he went over 20 years for a job as a trustee at Trinity College. In addition, he resumed his work as a lawyer in New York City, where he died on 10 February 1886. His body was buried in the family cemetery in North Port. Congressman Townsend Scudder was his nephew.