Henry Waldron

Henry Waldron ( born October 11, 1819 in Albany, New York, † September 13, 1880 in Hillsdale, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1877 he represented several times the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Waldron attended the Albany Academy and then to 1836 the Rutgers College in New Brunswick (New Jersey). In 1837 he moved to Michigan, where he was an engineer at railway construction. Since 1839 he lived in the town of Hillsdale. Between 1846 and 1848 Waldron was director of the Railway Company Michigan Southern Railroad. After that, he became the first president of the Detroit, Hillsdale & Southwestern Railroad. He also was president of the Second National Bank of Hillsdale since its foundation by the year 1876.

Politically Waldron was first a member of the Whig party. In 1843 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan. In 1848 he was an elector of his party in the presidential elections. At that time, the Whig candidate Zachary Taylor was elected president. After the dissolution of his party mid-1850s to Waldron joined the newly formed Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1854 he was in the second electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of David A. Noble on March 4, 1855. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1861 three legislative periods. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. From 1855 to 1857 Waldron was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Finance. In 1860 he gave up another run for Congress.

1870 Waldron returned to the political stage. In that year he was elected in the first district of Michigan as the successor of Fernando C. Beaman again in the U.S. House of Representatives. After two re- election he was able to spend up to March 3, 1877 three other legislative periods. Since 1873, he acted as the successor to William L. Stoughton again the second district of his home state. From 1871 to 1873 Henry Waldron led the mining committee in Congress. In 1876 Waldron finally renounced to another candidacy. From 1876 until his death he was president of the First National Bank of Hillsdale. He died on September 13, 1880 in Hillsdale.

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