Henry Y. Cranston

Henry Young Cranston ( born October 9, 1789 in Newport, Rhode Iceland, † February 12, 1864 ) was an American politician. Between 1843 and 1847 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Cranston was the older brother of Robert B. Cranston, of 1837-1849 - was a congressman for Rhode Iceland - before and after his brother. Henry attended the common schools and later worked in New Bedford (Massachusetts ) in the trade. In 1810 he returned to Newport, where he worked as a commission merchant until 1815. After studying law and its made ​​in 1819 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Newport. Between 1818 and 1833 he was bailiff of a court of appeal. Between 1827 and 1843 Cranston was a member of the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland; In 1842 he was a member and vice president of a meeting to revise the constitution of his home state.

Cranston joined the early 1840s in Rhode Iceland briefly existing Law and Order Party. This party was created in response to the so-called Dorr Rebellion, in which it came to calls for reform of the electoral law. In 1842 he was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he had succeeded his brother Robert on March 4, 1843. Two years later, Henry Cranston as his brother, a member of the Whig party. As their candidate, he was elected for a second term in Congress, where he remained until March 3, 1847. Then the seat back fell to his brother.

Between 1847 and 1854 Henry Cranston was again a deputy in the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland, where he spent three years as its president. He died in February 1864 in his birthplace, Newport.