Henry J. Spooner

Henry J. Spooner

Henry Joshua Spooner (born August 6, 1839 in Providence , Rhode Island , †  February 9, 1918 there ) was an American politician . Between 1881 and 1891 he represented the first constituency of the state of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Spooner attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1860 Brown University in Providence. He then began to study law, which he interrupted because of the civil war in which he participated as a soldier of the Union. After the war he was admitted to the bar in 1865. He then practiced this profession in his hometown of Providence. In 1877 he became head of the Union Army Veterans Association ( Grand Army of the Republic ) in Rhode Island. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1875 and 1881 Spooner was a member of the House of Representatives from Rhode Island ; from 1879 to 1881 he was speaker of this parliamentary chamber.

After the resignation of Congressman Nelson W. Aldrich , Spooner was elected his successor in Congress in the by-election. After he was confirmed in his mandate in the following regular elections, Spooner could remain in Congress between December 5, 1881 and March 3, 1891. From 1889 to 1891 he was chairman of the Committee on Accounts . In the elections of 1890 he was defeated by Oscar Lapham of the Democratic Party .

After his tenure in Congress ended, Spooner returned to practice as a lawyer. In 1902 he was re-elected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives. Henry Spooner died in his hometown of Providence in February 1918 and was buried there.

Web links

• Henry J. Spooner in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry J. Spooner in the database of Find a Grave (English)