Henry W. Seymour

Henry William Seymour ( born July 21, 1834 in Brockport, Monroe County, New York, † April 7, 1906 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1888 and 1889 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Seymour attended the public schools of his home and the Brockport Collegiate Institute and the Canandaigua Academy. In 1855 he graduated from Williams College in Williamstown (Massachusetts ). Seymour studied in the Albany Law, but without ever working as a lawyer. Until 1872 he worked in his hometown of Brockport in the trade. In that year he moved to Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan, where he worked in the timber industry and in agriculture. Politically, Seymour member of the Republican Party. Between 1880 and 1882 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan; 1882 to 1888 he was a member - with a break in the years 1884-1886 - the state Senate.

After the death of Congressman Seth C. Moffatt Seymour was chosen as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington at the due election for the eleventh seat of Michigan, where he took up his new mandate on February 14, 1888. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1888, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1889. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Henry Seymour is no longer politically have appeared. He died on April 7, 1906 during a visit to the German capital Washington and was buried in his birthplace of Brockport.

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