Henry C. Deming

Henry C. Deming

Henry Champion Deming (born May 23, 1815 in Colchester , Connecticut , †  October 8, 1872 in Hartford , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1863 and 1867 he represented the first constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After a good elementary school education, Henry Deming attended Yale College until 1836 . After studying law at the law school of Harvard University and his admission to the bar in 1839, he began to work in his new profession in New York City . During this time, however, he was more concerned with literary work. In 1847 he moved to Hartford, where he embarked on a political career.

He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1849 to 1850 and from 1859 to 1861 . In 1851 he was also a member of the State Senate . Deming was Mayor of Hartford from 1854 to 1858 and again between 1860 and 1862. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . During the Civil War , Deming had been colonel in a Connecticut regiment since September 1861. After the capture of the city of New Orleans by the Union troops, he became military mayor of that city between October 1862 and February 1863 . Then he retired from military service.

In the congressional elections of 1862 Deming, while still in the military, was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the first district of Connecticut , where he succeeded Dwight Loomis on March 4, 1863 . After a re-election in 1864, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1867 . There he was chairman of the War Department's Expenditure Control Committee. In the elections of 1866 he was defeated by his party colleague Richard D. Hubbard . From 1869 until his death in 1872 Deming headed the federal finance authority in Hartford.

Web links

• Henry C. Deming in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry C. Deming in the database of Find a Grave (English)