Henry Kirke Porter

Henry Kirke Porter ( * November 24, 1840 in Concord, New Hampshire, † April 10, 1921 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1905 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Porter attended both public and private schools, including the New London Academy, also in New Hampshire. Then he studied until 1860 at Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ). In 1860 he was co-founder of the YMCA. Between 1861 and 1866 he studied at Newton Theological Seminary in Massachusetts and at the Rochester Theological Seminary in New York State theology. In the years 1862 and 1863, he served during the Civil War in the militia of the State of Massachusetts. 1863 Porter was a member of the United States Christian Commission. Since 1866, he worked with his father in Pittsburgh in locomotive. They founded a firm whose president he became. From 1868 to 1887, he headed the local chapter of the YMCA in Pittsburgh. Between 1892 and 1906 he was vice-president of the local Chamber of Commerce. From 1875 to 1921 Porter was a member of the International Committee of the YMCA; 1890-1921 he served as curator of the Carnegie Institute. He was also from 1871 to 1921 curator of Crozier Theological Seminary. In addition, he was active as an independent Republican in politics.

In the congressional elections of 1902, Porter was elected in the then newly established 31 electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1903. Since he has not been confirmed in 1904, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1905. In 1904, Porter was curator and CEO of the Western Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked again in locomotive. He died on 10 April 1921 in Washington, and was buried in Pittsburgh.