Henry H. Starkweather

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Henry H. Starkweather

Henry Howard Starkweather (born April 29, 1826 in Preston , New London County , Connecticut , †  January 28, 1876 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1867 and 1876 he represented the third constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Starkweather attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Norwich in his new profession. Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . In 1856 he was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives. In the years 1860 and 1868 Starkweather was each delegate to the Republican National Conventions , at which Abraham Lincoln and later Ulysses S. Grant were nominated as the party's presidential candidate. Between 1861 and 1865, Starkweather was a postman in Norwich.

In the congressional elections of 1866 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington in the third district of Connecticut. There he took over from Augustus Brandegee on March 4, 1867 . After he was confirmed in his mandate in the following congressional elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on January 28, 1876 . Between 1871 and 1873 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with the administration of the federal district in Washington. After a by-election, his mandate fell to his party colleague John T. Wait .

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SURNAME Starkweather, Henry H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Starkweather, Henry Howard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Preston , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1876
Place of death Washington, DC