Henry Wilbur Palmer

Henry Wilbur Palmer (* July 10 1839 in Clifford, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, † February 15, 1913 in Wilkes -Barre, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1911 he represented two times the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Palmer attended the Wyoming Seminary in Kingston and then the Fort Edward Institute in New York State. After a subsequent law degree from the National Law School in Poughkeepsie and his 1860 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. During the Civil War he was active in the years 1862 and 1863 in the payroll office of the Union troops in occupied New Orleans. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. In the years 1872 and 1873, he participated as a delegate to a constitutional convention of his home state; 1879 to 1883 he held the office of Attorney General of Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1900, Palmer was in the twelfth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Stanley Woodward Davenport on March 4, 1901. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1907, this three legislative periods. Since 1903, he represented there as a follower of William Connell the eleventh district of his state. In 1905 he was one of the deputies, who were entrusted with the implementation of an impeachment of Federal Judge Charles Swayne. In the elections of 1908 Henry Palmer was re-elected in the eleventh district of Pennsylvania in the Congress, where he could spend another term as the successor of John Thomas Lenahan between 4 March 1909 and 3 March 1911.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Henry Palmer practiced as a lawyer again. He died on February 15, 1913 in Wilkes - Barre.