William Henry (congressman)

William Henry ( born March 22, 1788 in Charlestown, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, † April 16, 1861 in Bellows Falls, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1847 and 1851 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Henry attended the public schools of his home. Later he was on business in Chester ( Vermont) as well as in the states of New York and New Hampshire. In 1831 he settled in Bellows Falls. There he went into the banking business.

Politically, Henry member of the Whig party. Between 1834 and 1835, he was a member of the House of Representatives of Vermont; In 1836 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1839 he was a delegate to the national convention of the Whigs in Harrisburg ( Pennsylvania). There, William Henry Harrison and John Tyler were nominated for the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the party for the elections of 1840. William Henry was meanwhile also active in the railroad business and was president of the railway company Rutland and Burlington Railroad.

In 1846 he was in the first district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1847 the successor of Solomon Foot. After a re-election in 1848 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1851 two legislative sessions. In the elections of 1852 he was defeated Ahiman Louis Miner.

After the end of his time in Congress, Henry committed himself again to his private interests, most notably the banking business. After the dissolution of the Whigs, he joined the newly formed Republican Party. In 1860 he was in the presidential elections of the Republican electors, officially chose Abraham Lincoln as president. William Henry died a few months later in April 1861 in Bellows Falls. He was buried in Chester.