Winder Laird Henry

Winder Laird Henry ( * December 20, 1864 in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, † July 5, 1940 ) was an American politician. Between 1894 and 1895 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Winder Henry was a descendant of Governor Charles Goldsborough (1765-1834) and U.S. Senator Robert Henry Goldsborough (1779-1836) and the son of Congressman Daniel Maynadier Henry ( 1823-1899 ). He attended the common schools and worked in the trade. He then became shareholder and editor of the newspaper Cambridge Chronicle. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

After the death of Mr Robert Franklin Bratton Henry was at the due election for the first seat of Maryland as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on November 6, 1894. Since he did not run in the regular congressional elections of 1894, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1895.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Henry worked until 1898, again in the newspaper business. After studying law and his 1898 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to practice in this profession. Between 1899 and 1903 Henry Winder was on the staff of Governor John Walter Smith. In the years 1908 and 1909, he served as a judge for the first judicial district of Maryland. After that, he worked again as a lawyer and went into the banking industry. Between 1914 and 1916 Henry was also a member of the service commission of the state of Maryland. He died on 5 July 1940 in Cambridge.