Henry Wells Tracy

Henry Wells Tracy (* September 24, 1807 in Ulster, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, † April 11, 1886 in Standing Stone, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1863 and 1865 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Tracy attended preparatory schools and then the Angelica Seminary in New York State. He then studied law. It is not known whether he ever practiced law. In the following years he worked in various cities in Pennsylvania and Maryland in the commercial as well as in road construction. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In May 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate. In the years 1861 and 1862 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1862 Tracy was an independent Republican in the 13th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Philip Johnson on March 4, 1863. Until March 3, 1865, he was able to complete a term in Congress. This was marked by the events of the Civil War.

In 1866, Henry Tracy head of the tax authority at the port of Philadelphia. He then worked in retail. He died on April 11, 1886 in Standing Stone.