Henry C. Snodgrass

Henry C. Snodgrass

Henry Clay Snodgrass (born March 29, 1848 in Sparta , White County , Tennessee , †  April 22, 1931 in Altus , Oklahoma ) was an American politician . Between 1891 and 1895 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Snodgrass was an uncle of Charles Edward Snodgrass (1866-1936), who also sat in Congress for the State of Tennessee between 1899 and 1903 . He first attended the Sparta Academy . After studying law at Cumberland University in Lebanon and being admitted to the bar in 1870, he began to work in his new profession in Sparta. He also worked in agriculture. During the Civil War he served as a soldier in the Confederate Army .

Politically, Snodgrass was a member of the Democratic Party . From 1878 to 1884 he was a prosecutor in the Fifth Judicial District of Tennessee. In the congressional election of 1890 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the third constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded H. Clay Evans on March 4, 1891 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1895 . In the elections of 1894 he was defeated by the Republican Foster V. Brown .

In 1896 Henry Snodgrass was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where William Jennings Bryan was first nominated as a presidential candidate. In the following years he practiced again as a lawyer in Sparta. He later moved to Gould , Oklahoma, where he worked in agriculture. He died on April 22, 1931 in Altus, where he was also buried.

Web links

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

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