Henry Page

Henry Page ( born June 28, 1841 in Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland; † January 7, 1913 ) was an American lawyer and politician. In the years 1891 and 1892, he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Page attended a school in West Chester ( Pennsylvania). He then studied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. After a subsequent law degree in 1864 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Princess Anne to work in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1867 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Maryland. Between 1870 and 1884 he was a prosecutor in Somerset County.

In the congressional elections of 1890 Page was the first electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Hopper Gibson on March 4, 1891. He exercised this mandate only until September 3, 1892. On this day he resigned after he was appointed a judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals. In the next 15 years he served as a judge for the first judicial district of Maryland. Page Henry died on January 7, 1913 in Princess Anne.