Henry Winfield Watson

Henry Winfield Watson ( * June 24, 1856 in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; † August 27, 1933 ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1933 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Watson attended private schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1881 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Philadelphia in this profession. He was also involved in other industries and later became president of the Washington, Potomac & Chesapeake Railway Co. He was also a director of several banks and at the Langhorne Water Co. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1914, Watson was in the eighth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat Robert Edward Difenderfer on March 4, 1915. After nine elections he could remain until his death on August 27, 1933 in Congress. In this time were, among other things, the First World War and the Great Depression. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. Since 1923 Henry Watson represented the ninth district of his state.