Henry U. Johnson

Henry Underwood Johnson ( born October 28, 1850 in Cambridge City, Wayne County, Indiana, † June 4, 1939 in Richmond, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1899 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Johnson visited the Centerville Collegiate Institute and Earlham College in Richmond. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1872 admitted to the bar he began to work in Centerville in this profession. In 1876 he moved his residence and his law firm to Richmond. Between 1876 and 1880 served Johnson as a prosecutor in Wayne County. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1887 and 1889 he was a member of the Senate of Indiana.

In the congressional elections of 1890 Johnson was the sixth election district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas M. Browne on March 4, 1891. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1899 four legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War of 1898. Fell Since 1895 Johnson was chairman of the second election committee ( Committee on Elections No.. 2). In 1898 he opted not to run again.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Henry Johnson joined the Democratic Party. In 1899 and 1900 he practiced in St. Louis ( Missouri) as a lawyer. He then returned to Richmond, where he continued his legal work. Politically, he is no longer have appeared until his death on June 4, 1939.