Henry G. Stebbins

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Henry G. Stebbins

Henry George Stebbins (born September 15, 1811 in Ridgefield , Connecticut , † December 9, 1881 in New York City ) was an American politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives in 1863 and 1864 .

Career

Henry George Stebbins was born and raised in Ridgefield nine months before the outbreak of the British-American War . He attended private schools and then moved to New York where he went into banking. A year after the outbreak of the Mexican-American War , he enlisted in the Twelfth Infantry Regiment of the New York National Guard and served there as Colonel until his retirement in 1855. He worked as a stockbroker and was between 1851 and 1852, then between 1858 and President of the New York Stock Exchange in 1859 and lastly between 1863 and 1864 .

Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the congressional election of 1862 , Stebbins was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the first constituency of New York , where he succeeded Edward H. Smith on March 4, 1863 . However, he resigned from this position on October 24, 1864. During his time as a congressman, he was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means . Stebbins was the trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and President of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway , the Dramatic Fund Association , the Academy of Music, and the Central Park Commission . He died on December 9, 1881 and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn .

literature

Web links

  • Henry G. Stebbins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The death list of a day; sudden death of Col. Henry G. Stebbins. The New York Times, December 11, 1881
  2. ↑ T. Farrell & Son, 1869: History and honorary roll of the Twelfth Regiment, Infantry, NGSNY , M. Francis Dowley, pp. 1-3.
  3. ↑ Presidents and Chairmen of the New York Stock Exchange (PDF; 22 kB)
  4. ↑ Journal of the House of Representantives of the United States , United States Government Printing Office , 1865, p. 32.
  5. ↑ Annual Report - American Museum of Natural History , American Museum of Natural History, 1870, p. 3.
  6. ^ The Railway News , Volume 11, 1869, p. 126.
personal data
SURNAME Stebbins, Henry G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stebbins, Henry George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Ridgefield , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1881
Place of death New York City