Henry F. Hollis

Henry French Hollis (born August 30, 1869 in Concord , New Hampshire , †  July 7, 1949 in Paris , France ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of New Hampshire in the US Senate .

Henry F. Hollis

Life

Henry Hollis attended public schools, but also received private tuition. From 1886 to 1887 he was employed as an engineer with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad railway company . In 1892 he graduated from Harvard University ; then he studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1893 and began practicing law in Concord.

His first candidacies for political office were unsuccessful. In 1900, Hollis ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives , but lost it as well as two years later in the election for governor of New Hampshire, when he lost ten percentage points behind Republican Nahum J. Bachelder . In 1904 he ran again as a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, with almost 18 percentage points difference to the victorious Republican John McLane had to accept an even more pronounced defeat.

Hollis was only able to successfully contest the election to the US Senate. With 50.9 percent of the vote, he prevailed against the later Republican Governor John H. Bartlett , whereupon he took up his mandate in Washington on March 13, 1913. Since he refused to run again in 1918, Hollis resigned on March 3, 1919 from Congress . During his time as Senator, he chaired, among other things, Committee on Enrolled Bills .

From 1914 to 1919 Hollis was a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . He also represented American interests in the Interallied War Finance Council in 1918 . He took on other financial tasks as a member of the United States Liquidation Commission for France and England and as an employee of the International Bank of Bulgaria from 1922. He died in 1949 while staying in Paris and was buried in Concord, the city of his birth.

Web links

• Henry F. Hollis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry F. Hollis in the database of Find a Grave (English)