H. Henry Powers

H. Henry Powers

Horace Henry Powers (born May 29, 1835 in Morristown , Vermont , † December 8, 1913 in Morrisville , Vermont) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1891 and 1901 he represented the first constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Powers first attended the Peoples Academy and then studied until 1855 at the University of Vermont in Burlington . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1858, he began to work in his new profession between 1859 and 1862 in Hyde Park .

Powers was a member of the Republican Party . In 1858 he was an MP in the Vermont House of Representatives . In 1861 and 1862 he served as the prosecutor in Lamoille County . In 1869 he was a member of a Council of Censors and in 1870 he was a member of a commission that revised the Vermont state constitution. Powers served on the State Senate between 1872 and 1873 and was re-elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1874, where he became President of the House. Powers was a judge on the Vermont Supreme Court between December 1874 and December 1890 . From 1883 he was also a curator of the University of Vermont. He was to hold this office until his death. In 1892 he took part as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis .

In the congressional elections of 1890, Henry Powers was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the first district of Vermont , where he succeeded John Wolcott Stewart on March 4, 1891 . After he was confirmed in his mandate in the following elections, Powers was able to complete a total of five terms in Congress by March 3, 1901 . From 1895 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with the railways in the western United States ( Committee on Pacific Railroads ). For the elections in 1900 Powers was no longer nominated by his party.

After his tenure in Congress, Henry Powers worked as a lawyer in Morrisville, where he died in 1913.

Web links

• H. Henry Powers in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• H. Henry Powers in the database of Find a Grave (English)