Henry H. Bingham

Henry H. Bingham (1911)

Henry Harrison Bingham (born December 4, 1841 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , †  March 22, 1912 there ) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1912 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Bingham attended Jefferson College in Canonsburg and the law school at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington until 1862 . During the Civil War , Bingham served in the Union Army , where he rose to Brigadier General. He took part in several battles and was wounded several times. During the Battle of Gettysburg, he served as a captain in General Hancock's II Corps .

For his military achievements, Bingham was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1893 . Between 1867 and 1872 Bingham was a post office owner in Philadelphia; from 1872 to 1879 he acted there as court clerk . Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1872 and 1900 he participated as a delegate at all Republican National Conventions .

In the congressional election of 1878 Bingham was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded Chapman Freeman on March 4, 1879 . After 16 re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on March 22, 1912 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . From 1881 to 1883 and from 1889 to 1891 Bingham was chairman of the Postal Committee; from 1895 to 1897 he headed the Ministry of Post's Expenditures Control Committee.

Honors

During the attack by General Pickett's troops (Pickett's Charge) on the Union positions at Cemetery Ridge, he took care of the fatally wounded Brigadier General Armistead and, at Armistead's request, gave his personal belongings to his longtime friend General Hancock. Like Armistead, Bingham was a member of the Masonic League . He belonged to Chartiers Lodge # 297 in Canonsburg . His selfless help to the fatally wounded General Armistead was shown in the Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial at Gettysburg National Cemetery.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brother's War description ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Masons at the Battle of Gettysburg

Web links

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

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

predecessor	Office	successor
Chapman Freeman	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (1st constituency) March 4, 1879 - March 22, 1912	William Scott Vare