Henry Warner Slocum

Henry Warner Slocum (* September 24, 1827 in Delphi, Onondaga County, New York, † April 14, 1894 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American soldier and politician. During the Civil War he rose on the part of Northern States to Major General; then he took twice the New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Slocum first completed the Cazenovia Seminary, and then worked for some time as a teacher. Between 1848 and 1852 he held the United States Military Academy at West Point. There he was a classmate of the later General Philip Sheridan. Until 1856 he remained in the U.S. Army, in which he brought it then to lieutenant. After studying law and his 1858 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Syracuse in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. He was county treasurer and in 1859 deputy in the New York State Assembly. He was also a member of the state militia as a colonel. There he worked in the training of artillery.

Between 1861 and 1865 he took as an officer of the State militia, which belonged to the army of the Union, part of the civil war. During this time he rose to major general. He commanded - alternating with Alpheus S. Williams - most of the time the XII. Corps. He participated in many battles. Among other things, he was also at the Battle of Gettysburg while, where he belatedly intervened with his corps in the fighting, which earned him the nickname Slow Come. In 1864, his corps was the first to be marched into the city of Atlanta in Georgia. On September 28, 1865 Slocum retired from the military service. He settled in Brooklyn, where he practiced law. At the same time he continued his political career. He ran unsuccessfully for the office of Secretary of State of New York.

In the congressional elections of 1868 was Slocum in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Erigena Robinson on March 4, 1869. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1873 two legislative sessions. In 1872 he gave up another candidacy. In the following years he worked as a lawyer again. In 1876, he headed the municipal authority Department of City Works in the then independent Brooklyn. In the elections of 1882 Slocum was elected to Congress again in a state-wide constituency, where he was able to complete a more legislative period between the 4th March 1883, March 3, 1885. He was also Chairman of the Board of the New York State Soldiers ' and Sailors ' Home in Bath and board member of the Gettysburg Monument Commissioners. Henry Slocum died on 14 April 1894 in Brooklyn.

The paddle steamer General Slocum was named after him. This ship came on June 15, 1904 in New York City on fire. In this disaster 1021 people lost their lives.