Pat Henry (politician)

Patrick " Pat" Henry ( * February 15, 1861 in Helena, Arkansas, † December 28, 1933 in Vicksburg, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1903 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Pat Henry was the nephew of Patrick Henry, who sat from 1897 to 1901 for the Sixth Election District of Mississippi in Congress. The younger Patrick came already in 1865 with his parents to Vicksburg, where he attended the public schools. He then studied at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and at the U.S. Military Academy. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1882 Admitted to the Bar Henry began to practice in his new profession in Vicksburg. Between 1884 and 1888 he was the legal representative of the city.

Politically, Henry member of the Democratic Party. From 1888 to 1890 he was a member of the Senate of Mississippi from 1890 to 1900, he served as district attorney for the ninth judicial district of the state. From 1900 to 1901 he was a judge in this district. In 1896 Henry was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, was nominated on the William Jennings Bryan as their presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1900, Henry was in the third district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas C. Catchings on March 4, 1901. Since he was not nominated in 1902 by his party for a second term, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1903. After the end of his time in the House of Representatives, Pat Henry withdrew from politics. He again worked as a lawyer in Vicksburg, where he died in December 1933.