Lewis Henry

Lewis Henry ( born June 8, 1885 in Elmira, New York, † July 23, 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. In the years 1922 and 1923 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lewis Henry attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1904, the Elmira Academy. Subsequently, he studied until 1909 at Cornell University in Ithaca. After a subsequent law degree at Columbia University in New York City and its 1912, admitted to the bar he began in Elmira to work in this profession. Between 1914 to 1920, he was mayor of the first municipality of Elmira. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1920 he was a delegate to its regional congress for the state of New York.

Following the resignation of Mr Alanson B. Houghton Henry was at the due election for the 37th seat from New York as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 11 April 1922. Since he was not nominated for the regular congressional elections of 1922 by his party, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1923.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Lewis Henry practiced again as a lawyer in Elmira. Until 1939 he was also president of the company Oriental Consolidated Mining Company. He died on 23 July 1941 in Boston and was buried in Elmira.